Why, them people
don't know no more about makin' a cocktail than a rabbit." ...
"That's her standing yonder talking to the captain. Yes, that's
what so many people say, but as a matter of fact, she's the youngest
one of the two. I say, 'These are my daughters,' and then people
say, 'You mean your sisters.' Still I married very young--at
seventeen--and possibly that helps to explain it." ... "Oh, is
that a shark out yonder? Well, anyway, it's a porpoise, and a
porpoise is a kind of shark, isn't it? When a porpoise grows up,
it gets to be a shark--I read that somewhere. Ain't nature just
wonderful?" ... "Raymund Walter Pelham, if I have to speak to
you again, young man, I'm going to take you to the stateroom and
give you something you won't forget in a hurry." ... "Stew'd,
hellup me gellup."
Thus the lazy hours slip by and the spell of the sea takes hold
on you and you lose count of the time and can barely muster up the
energy to perform the regular noonday task of putting your watch
back half an hour. A passenger remarks that this is Thursday and
you wonder dimly what happened to Wednesday.
Three days more--just three. The realization comes to you with a
joyous shock. Somebody sights a sea-gull. With eager eyes you
watch its curving flight. Until this moment you have not been
particularly interested in sea-gulls.
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