These packets o' yours they go straight out, I take it, and straight home again ?" "As straight as the winds let 'em, and I give a bonus for record passages.

Tea don't improve by being at sea." "When he wuz little he used to play at keeping store, an' I had hopes he might follow that up.

But soon's he could paddle a dory I knew that were goin' to be denied me." "They're square-riggers, mother; iron-built an' well found.

Remember what Phil's sister reads you when she gits his letters." "I've never known as Phil told lies, but he's too venturesome (like most of 'em that use the sea).

Ef Dan sees fit, Mr.Cheyne, he can go--fer all o' me." "She jest despises the ocean," Disko explained, "an' I--I dunno haow to act polite, I guess, er I'd thank you better." "My father--my own eldest brother--two nephews--an' my second sister's man," she said, dropping her head on her hand.