51/81 If we get along well together we shall have a comfortable time; if we don't, we shall hay hell afloat. If we pull together you will find me a clever fellow; if we don't, you will find me a bloody rascal. Go below the larboard watch." But the note of roughness and blackguardism was not always sounded on American ships. We find, in looking over old memoirs, that more than one vessel was known as a "religious ship"-- though, indeed, the very fact that few were thus noted speaks volumes for the paganism of the mass. |