'There!' says he between his teeth, 'I cal'late that'll learn you that crockery costs money.' "It did.

I never broke anything else aboard that ship.

Cummin's was a bully and a sneak to everybody but the old man, and a toady to him.

He never struck me or anybody else when the skipper was around, but there was nothin' too mean for him to do when he thought he had a safe chance.
And he took pains to let me know that if I ever told a soul at home he'd kill me.

I'd learned by experience, not only about the price of crockery, but other things, things that a youngster ought not to learn--how to hate a man so that you can wait years to get even with him, for one.