He was too steady and hardworking altogether for Jim and me.

He worked all day and every day, and saved every penny he made.

Catch him gaffing!--no, not for a sixpence.

He called the Dalys and Jacksons thieves and swindlers, who would be locked up, or even hanged, some day, unless they mended themselves.

As for drinking a glass of grog, you might just as soon ask him to take a little laudanum or arsenic.
'Why should I drink grog,' he used to say--'such stuff, too, as you get at that old villain Grimes's--with a good appetite and a good conscience?
I'm afraid of no man; the police may come and live on my ground for what I care.