We's doin' blame' well, en we better let blame' well alone, as de good book says.

Like as not dey's a watchman on dat wrack." "Watchman your grandmother," I says; "there ain't nothing to watch but the texas and the pilot-house; and do you reckon anybody's going to resk his life for a texas and a pilot-house such a night as this, when it's likely to break up and wash off down the river any minute ?" Jim couldn't say nothing to that, so he didn't try.

"And besides," I says, "we might borrow something worth having out of the captain's stateroom.

Seegars, I bet you--and cost five cents apiece, solid cash.

Steamboat captains is always rich, and get sixty dollars a month, and THEY don't care a cent what a thing costs, you know, long as they want it.