The utmost that folk ashore could accomplish was to help the widows and the orphans, and after a few general remarks he took this opportunity of thanking, in the name of the city, those who had so public-spiritedly consented to participate in the exercises of the occasion.
"I jest despise the beggin' pieces in it," growled Disko.

"It don't give folk a fair notion of us." "Ef folk won't be fore-handed an' put by when they've the chance," returned Salters, "it stands in the nature o' things they hev to be 'shamed.

You take warnin' by that, young feller.

Riches endureth but for a season, ef you scatter them araound on lugsuries--" "But to lose everything, everything," said Penn.

"What can you do then?
Once I"-- the watery blue eyes stared up and down as if looking for something to steady them--"once I read--in a book, I think--of a boat where every one was run down--except some one--and he said to me--" "Shucks!" said Salters, cutting in.