And when he cometh back he would be glad to find us had managed the job without him.

No fear of the weather breaking up afore Friday, and her can't take no harm for a tide or two.

If you thinks well, sir, let us heave at her to-day, as afore, by superior orders.

Then it come into your mind to try t'other end a bit, and you shift all the guns and heavy lumber forrard to give weight to the bows and lift the starn, and off her will glide at the first tug to-morrow, so sure as my name is Zebedee.

But mind one thing, sir, that you keep her, when you've got her.