It'll be a long time between drinks.' And then she laughed.
"She looked at me and said--not to me, mind you, but to the soaks: 'It's time this worthy man went ashore'-- me! worthy man! 'Fowler,' she said--you know, just like a straight order, and she didn't _mister_ him--it was plain Fowler--'Fowler,' she said, 'just tell Adamu Adam to man the whale-boat, and while he's taking Captain Oleson ashore have your boat put me on the _Flibberty_.

The three of you sail with me, so pack your dunnage.

And the one of you that shows up best will take the mate's billet.

Captain Oleson doesn't carry a mate, you know.' "I don't remember much after that.

All hands got me over the side, and it seems to me I went to sleep, sitting in the stern-sheets and watching that Adamu steer.