"I'll lay my wage an' share 'tis more'n half play-actin' to him, an' he consates himself he's a bowld mariner.

'Watch his little bit av a back now!" "That's the way we all begin," said Tom Platt.

"The boys they make believe all the time till they've cheated 'emselves into bein' men, an' so till they die--pretendin' an' pretendin'.

I done it on the old Ohio, I know.

Stood my first watch--harbor-watch--feelin' finer'n Farragut.
Dan's full o' the same kind o' notions.