As a rule, the cooks are expected to help get up the anchor and sails, but he will not put a hand to sailors' work.

He says that a cook must not have a rough hand, but that it should be as soft as a woman's.

Personally, I believe that is all nonsense.

However, as we have a fairly strong crew, I do not press him on the subject; though sometimes, when I tail on to a rope myself, and see him leaning quietly against his galley smoking his pipe, I am inclined to use strong language." "I don't think that is much to put up with, captain," Patsey said with a smile, "if he always cooks for you such breakfasts and dinners as we have had today; and I do think that there is, perhaps, something in what he says about rough hands." "Well, I feel that myself," he said.

"Still, it is a little aggravating, when everyone else is working hard, to see a man calmly smoking, and never raising a finger to help." The next day they kept very close inshore.