Now if I can only give him the rum, and make friends with him.
"Pray, Mr Simple, how are your father and mother ?" said the captain.
"Very well, I thank you, sir, and desire me to present their compliments." "I am obliged to them.

Now I think the sooner you go on board and learn your duty the better." (Just what the midshipman told me--the very words, thought I--then it's all true--and I began to tremble again.) "I have a little advice to offer you," continued the captain.

"In the first place, obey your superior officers without hesitation; it is for me, not you, to decide whether an order is unjust or not.

In the next place, never swear or drink spirits.

The first is immoral and ungentleman-like, the second is a vile habit which will grow upon you.