Say! you and I didn't head for port any too soon, did we ?" "No, I should say not.

I ought to have known better than to wait out there so long.

I've been warned about this tide.

I--" "S-sh-sh! YOU ought to have known better! What do you think of me?
Born and brought up within sight and smell of this salt puddle and let myself in for a scrape like this! But it was so mighty fine off there on the bar I couldn't bear to leave it.

I always said that goin' to sea on land would be the ideal way, and now I've tried it.