It took the wind out of my sails, because, though I'm just as right as I ever was, Caroline wouldn't listen to me, nor believe me, now." "She'll learn by experience." "Yup.

But learnin' by experience is a good deal like shippin' green afore the mast; it'll make an able seaman of you, if it don't kill you fust.

When I was a boy there was a man in our town name of Nickerson Cummin's.

He was mate of a ship and smart as a red pepper poultice on a skinned heel.

He was a great churchgoer when he was ashore and always preachin' brotherly love and kindness and pattin' us little shavers on the head, and so on.