This was composed of Steward, Kwaque, Cocky, and Scraps, and he ran with it as ancient forbears had ran with their own kind in the hunting.

The steerage was the lair of this pack, and, out of the steerage, it ranged the whole world, which was the _Mary Turner_ ever rocking, heeling, reeling on the surface of the unstable sea.
But the steerage and its company meant more to Michael than the mere pack.

It was heaven as well, where dwelt God.

Man early invented God, often of stone, or clod, or fire, and placed him in trees and mountains and among the stars.

This was because man observed that man passed and was lost out of the tribe, or family, or whatever name he gave to his group, which was, after all, the human pack.