And you see them bafflin' little cat's-paws?
It's good weather and a falling tide.

You just start to beat out, the two of you, and all you have to do is miss stays in the same baffling puff and the current will set you nicely aground.'" "'That little wash of sea won't more than start a sheet or two of copper,' says she, when Munster kicked," Sparrowhawk explained.

"Oh, she's no green un, that girl." "'Then I'll rescue your recruits and sail away--simple, ain't it ?' says she," Munster continued.

"'You hang up one tide,' says she; 'the next is the big high water.

Then you kedge off and go after more recruits.
There's no law against recruiting when you're empty.' 'But there is against starving 'em,' I said; 'you know yourself there ain't any _kai- kai_ to speak of aboard of us, and there ain't a crumb on the _Martha_.'" "We'd all been pretty well on native _kai-kai_, as it was," said Sparrowhawk.
"'Don't let the _kai-kai_ worry you, Captain Munster,' says she; 'if I can find grub for eighty-four mouths on the _Martha_, the two of you can do as much by your two vessels.