One never gets much worse weather than we have near home." "Was much damage done," asked Mark, "in the storm ?" "Nothing serious.

We were just starting after all our faulty rigging had been replaced.

If we had been coming home after a voyage it might have been different.

One or two sails were blown to shreds, but the old ship behaved nobly." "I wish I had not been so ill," said Mark thoughtfully.
"So do I, my lad; but why do you speak so ?" "Because I should have liked to be on deck." "Ah! well, you need not regret your sickness, for you would not have been on deck.

It was as much as we could do to hold our own and not get washed overboard.