"D'ye want to nail the trip, Dan?
That's Jonah sure, 'less you sing it after all our salt's wet." "No, 'tain't, is it, Dad?
Not unless you sing the very las' verse.

You can't learn me anything on Jonahs!" "What's that ?" said Harvey.

"What's a Jonah ?" "A Jonah's anything that spoils the luck.

Sometimes it's a man--sometimes it's a boy--or a bucket.

I've known a splittin'-knife Jonah two trips till we was on to her," said Tom Platt.