[Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling]@TWC D-Link bookCaptains Courageous CHAPTER IX 40/52
Then they led her forward to show her the foc'sle, at which she wept again, and must needs go down to see Harvey's identical bunk, and there she found the nigger cook cleaning up the stove, and he nodded as though she were some one he had expected to meet for years.
They tried, two at a time, to explain the boat's daily life to her, and she sat by the pawl-post, her gloved hands on the greasy table, laughing with trembling lips and crying with dancing eyes. "And who's ever to use the _We're Here_ after this ?" said Long Jack to Tom Platt.
"I feel as if she'd made a cathedral av ut all." "Cathedral!" sneered Tom Platt.
"Oh, if it had bin even the Fish C'mmission boat instid of this bally-hoo o' blazes.
If we only hed some decency an' order an' side-boys when she goes over! She'll have to climb that ladder like a hen, an' we--we ought to be mannin' the yards!" "Then Harvey was not mad," said Penn, slowly, to Cheyne. "No, indeed--thank God," the big millionaire replied, stooping down tenderly. "It must be terrible to be mad.
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