'Why, some.

But think of it! Only think of it! I didn't believe Bill had it in him.' "Well, that's the way I felt when Cap'n Jonadab sprung the New York plan on to me.

I was pretty nigh as much surprised as Labe.

The idea of a man with a chronic case of lockjaw of the pocketbook, same as Jonadab had worried along under ever sence I knew him, suddenly breakin' loose with a notion to go to New York on a pleasure cruise! 'Twas too many for me.
I set and looked at him.
"'Oh, I mean it, Barzilla,' he says.

'I ain't been to New York sence I was mate on the Emma Snow, and that was 'way back in the eighties.