"Penn's not all caulked, an' I ain't only but doin' my duty by him." They waited, those hungry men, three hours, till Penn reappeared with a smooth face and a blank mind.

He said he believed that he had been dreaming.

Then he wanted to know why they were so silent, and they could not tell him.
Disko worked all hands mercilessly for the next three or four days; and when they could not go out, turned them into the hold to stack the ship's stores into smaller compass, to make more room for the fish.

The packed mass ran from the cabin partition to the sliding door behind the foc'sle stove; and Disko showed how there is great art in stowing cargo so as to bring a schooner to her best draft.

The crew were thus kept lively till they recovered their spirits; and Harvey was tickled with a rope's end by Long Jack for being, as the Galway man said, "sorrowful as a sick cat over fwhat couldn't be helped." He did a great deal of thinking in those weary days, and told Dan what he thought, and Dan agreed with him--even to the extent of asking for fried pies instead of hooking them.
But a week later the two nearly upset the Hattie S.in a wild attempt to stab a shark with an old bayonet tied to a stick.