There's two skippers aboard this craft now and that's enough.
By time!" with another burst, "that kid's a reg'lar born mother.

She mothers that cat and them dolls and the hens already, and I swan to man I believe she'd like to adopt me.

I ain't goin' to be mothered and hinted at to do this and that and put to bed and tucked in by no kid.
I'll heave up my job first." He had been on the point of heaving up his job ever since the days when he sailed as cook aboard Captain Shadrach's schooner.

When the Captain retired from the sea for the last time, and became partner and fellow shopkeeper with Zoeth, Isaiah had retired with him and was engaged to keep house for the two men.

The Captain had balked at the idea of a female housekeeper.
"Women aboard ship are a dum nuisance," he declared.