"There's all sorts o' Jonahs.

Jim Bourke was one till he was drowned on Georges.

I'd never ship with Jim Bourke, not if I was starvin'.

There wuz a green dory on the Ezra Flood.

Thet was a Jonah, too, the worst sort o' Jonah.
Drowned four men, she did, an' used to shine fiery O, nights in the nest." "And you believe that ?" said Harvey, remembering what Tom Platt had said about candles and models.