"I've carried 'em cabin passage and I know.

Isaiah Chase is a good cook, and, besides, if the biscuits are more fit for cod sinkers than they are for grub, I can tell him so in the right kind of language.

We don't want no woman steward, Zoeth; you hear ME!" Zoeth, although the Captain's seafaring language was a trial to his gentle, churchly soul, agreed with his partner on the main point.

His experience with the other sex had not been such as to warrant further experiment.

So Isaiah was hired and had been cook and steward at the South Harniss home for many years.