He did not like being called "young feller"; and, as one rescued from drowning, expected sympathy.

His mother suffered agonies whenever he got his feet wet; but this mariner did not seem excited.
"Naow let's hear all abaout it.

It's quite providential, first an' last, fer all concerned.

What might be your name?
Where from (we mistrust it's Noo York), an' where baound (we mistrust it's Europe) ?" Harvey gave his name, the name of the steamer, and a short history of the accident, winding up with a demand to be taken back immediately to New York, where his father would pay anything any one chose to name.
"H'm," said the shaven man, quite unmoved by the end of Harvey's speech.

"I can't say we think special of any man, or boy even, that falls overboard from that kind o' packet in a flat ca'am.