I can outwork and outgame the huskiest of the younglings.

And don't let my age get to anybody's ears, Mr.Pathurst.
Skippers are not particular for mates getting around the seventy mark.
And owners neither.

I've had my hopes for this ship, and I'd a-got her, I think, except for the old man decidin' to go to sea again.

As if he needed the money! The old skinflint!" "Is he well off ?" I inquired.
"Well off! If I had a tenth of his money I could retire on a chicken ranch in California and live like a fighting cock--yes, if I had a fiftieth of what he's got salted away.

Why, he owns more stock in all the Blackwood ships.