"You want water here now, to fill up." "I thought when the tide came, Capt.

Drummond, I could let it flow in here, and see how it would look." "It's a poor rule that don't work both ways," said the Captain.

"I always heard that 'time and tide wait for no man;' and we won't wait for the tide.

Here Gary--make yourself useful--fetch some water here; enough to fill two seas and a portion of the Atlantic Ocean." "What shall I bring it in, if you please ?" "Anything!--your hands, or your hat, man.

Do impossibilities for once.
It is easy to see you are not a soldier." "The fates preserve me from being a soldier under you!" said Gary--"if that's your idea of military duty.