When you're drinking and fooling you can see nothing at all, and you think you're a-doing all right, and everybody else is wrong when they try to help you.

Out at sea I gambled and drunk when I could get the money; I made rare game of religious men, and lived as if I had never to die.

Then I was persuaded by one of my mates to visit the Mission ship, the very first as ever come, and I wish there was twenty.

I'd had a bad time ashore, and my children was frightened of my ways, though I was kind enough when sober, and I'd left the wife to pick up a living how she could.

Then I heard what Mr.Fullerton said; God bless him! And I says to myself, 'Tom Barling, you're no better than a pig you're not.' But I was proud, and I needed to be brought low.