Christian Young is all right though, Munster has a slap- dash style about him, and they do say old Nielsen was a crackerjack.

But with the rest I've seen, there's no dash, no go, no cleverness, no real sailor's pride.

It's all humdrum, and podgy, and slow-going, any going so long as you get there heaven knows when.

But some day I'll show you how the _Martha_ should be handled.

I'll break out anchor and get under way in a speed and style that will make your head hum; and I'll bring her alongside the wharf at Guvutu without dropping anchor and running a line." She came to a breathless pause, and then broke into laughter, directed, he could see, against herself.
"Old Kinross is setting that fisherman's staysail," he remarked quietly.
"No!" she cried incredulously, swiftly looking, then running for the telescope.
She regarded the manoeuvre steadily through the glass, and Sheldon, watching her face, could see that the skipper was not making a success of it.
She finally lowered the glass with a groan.
"He's made a mess of it," she said, "and now he's trying it over again.
And a man like that is put in charge of a fairy like the _Martha_! Well, it's a good argument against marriage, that's all.