t been over and above grateful dan well you was shook up and silly said dan anyway there was only an me aboard to see it the cook he don t count i might have thought about losing the bills c captains courageous that way said half to himself instead of calling everybody in sight a thief where s your father in the cabin what d you want o him again you ll see said and he stepped rather for his head was still singing to the cabin steps where the little ship s clock hung in plain sight of the wheel troop in the and yellow painted cabin was busy with a note book and an enormous black pencil which he sucked hard from time to time i haven t acted quite right said surprised at his own � � what s wrong said the � walked into dan ye no it s about you � i m here to listen � well i � i m here to take things back said very quickly � when a man s saved from drowning � he � ey you ll make a man yet cf you go on this way he t begin by calling people names jest an right � right an jest said troop with the ghost of a dry smile so i m here to say i m sorry another troop heaved himself slowly oflf the he was sitting on and held out an eleven inch hand captains courageous � � i do you sights o good an this shows i weren t in my a smothered chuckle on deck caught his ear i am very seldom in my the eleven inch hand closed on s it to the elbow we ll put a little more to that fore we ve done with you young an i don t think any worse of ye fer s gone by you wasn t responsible go right your business an you won t take no hurt you re white said dan as regained the deck flushed to the tips of his cars i don t feel it said he i didn t mean that way i heard what said when allows he don t think the worse of any man s give himself away he hates to be in his too ho ho j has a he d sooner dip his colours to the british than change it i m glad it s settled right up s right when he says he can t take you back it s all the we make here � the men ll be back like after a dead whale in ha af an hour what for said supper o course don t your tell you you ve a heap to learn � guess i have said looking at the of ropes and blocks overhead captains courageous she s a said dan misunderstanding the look wait till our s bent an she walks home with all her salt wet there s some work first though he pointed down into the darkness of the open between the two what s that for it s all empty said you an me an a few more got to fill it said dan that s where the fish goes � alive said well no they re so s to be dead � an flat � an salt there s a hundred o salt in the an we t more n covered our to now where are the fish though in the sea they say in the boats we pray said dan quoting a s proverb you come in last night with forty of em he pointed to a sort of wooden pen just in fi ont of the quarter deck you an me we ll that out when they re through send we ll full pens to night i ve seen her down ha af a foot with fish to clean an we stood to the tables till we was ourselves o them we was so sleepy yes they re in dan looked over the low at half a dozen towards them over the shining sea captains courageous i � i ve never seen the sea from so low down said it s fine the low sun made the water all purple and with golden lights on the barrels of the long and blue and green shades in the hollows each in sight seemed to be pulling her towards her by invisible strings and the little black figures in the tiny boats pulled like toys they ve struck on good said dan between his half shut eyes t room fer another fish low a lily in still water ain t he which is i don t see how you can tell em way oflf as you do last boat to the south ard he fund you last night said dan pointing rows ye can t mistake him east o him � b s a heap n he rows � is loaded with by the looks of him e t o him � sec how pretty they string out all along � with the shoulders is long jack he s a man south boston where they all live mostly an mostly them men are good in a boat north away yonder � you ll hear him tune up in a minute � is tom man o war s man he was on the old � first of our navy he says to go the horn he never talks of much else when he sings but captains courageous he has fair luck there what did i tell you a melodious stole across the water from the northern heard something about somebody s hands and feet being cold and then bring forth the the see where them meet the clouds are thick around their heads the mists around their feet � � full boat said dan with a chuckle if he gives 