I think I see myself shipping first class on a six-thousand-ton hotel, and asking the third engineer what makes the engines go round, and whether it isn't very warm in the stokehold.

Ho! ho! I should ship as a loafer if ever I shipped at all, which I'm not going to do.

I shall compromise, and go for a small trip to begin with.' 'That's something at any rate.

Where will you go ?' said Torpenhow.

'It would do you all the good in the world, old man.' The Nilghai saw the twinkle in Dick's eye, and refrained from speech.
'I shall go in the first place to Rathray's stable, where I shall hire one horse, and take him very carefully as far as Richmond Hill.