The firm is not mean, though it avoids unnecessary expense.

We'll put a coat of paint on her, and some pitch, and do up the rigging.

She's a stout old craft, and with one of the smartest sailors afloat in command of her--for we always give you credit for being that--she'll run many a voyage yet." "I'm paid for the risk, guv'nor, as you said just now," the sailor remarked.

"But don't it seem kind o' hard on them as isn't--on the mates an' the hands ?" "There is always a risk, my dear captain.

There is nothing in the world without risk.