It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. They emptied a big tin dish of juicy fragments of fish- the blood-ends the cook had collected overnight. They cleaned up the plates and pans of the elder mess, who were out fishing, sliced pork for the midday meal, swabbed down the foc'sle, filled the lamps, drew coal and water for the cook, an investigated the fore-hold, where the boat's stores were stacked. It was another perfect day - soft, mild and clear; and Harvey breathed to the very bottom of his lungs.

When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.

If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the Champagne.

Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.

Our loves are not given, but only lent, At compound interest of cent per cent.

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.

The Navy is very old and very wise.