Part 20 (1/2)

Only, I'm afraid your three-decker's apprenticeshi+p 'll stand in your way'

'Greek 's to be done forGreek for e and the love of virtue I must do for myself; and not to be wrecked, Inor huht rules for husters to serve in your shi+p, captain?'

'I'd bless the wind that blew them there, foul or not, my lad'

'And there they'd stick when you had them, captain?'

'I'd think it was the Lord's will they should stick there awhile, sters out like gossamers on a wind, their parents are where they sow themselves, my lad'

'I call that hard on the real parents, Captain Welsh,' said Temple

'It's harder on Providence when parents breed that kind o' light creature,our best, such as it was; the captain leaning over his side of the table, clasping his hands unintentionally preacher-like; we on our side supporting our chins on our fists, quick to be at him Temple was brilliant; he wanted to convert the captain, and avowed it

'For,' said he, 'you're not like one of those tract-fellows You're a ood sea sanctimoniousness, and we can see and excuse your mistake as to us two; but now, there's ood man, but he 's a man of the world, and reads his classics and his Bible He's none the worse for it, I assure you'

'Where was his son the night of the fog?' said the captain

'Well, he happened to be out in it'

'Where'd he be now but for one o' my men?'

'Who can answer that, Captain Welsh?'

'I can, ates, I verily believe'

Tehed at the captain's infatuation, and said, 'I'll tell you of a fellow at our school naical scholar--always got the prize for theology Well, he was a confirmed sneak I've taken hi to hi--he broke out in a clammy sweat ”Don't, don't!” he'd cry ”You're just the fellow to suffer intensely,” I told hi the whole of Deuteronomy and the Acts of the Apostles by heart!

His idea of Judgeer's half-yearly examination

These are facts, you know, Captain Welsh'

I testified to the: 'I'll ht of a storm, my lad'

'With pleasure,' said Temple

'The Lord send it!' exclaiazing up into his eyebrows

Before we knew that anything was co, he was out on a narrative of a scholar of one of the Universities Our ears were indifferent to the young hts of fortune to delirium tremens down the cataract of brandy, until the captain spoke of a dark night on the Pool of the Thaled, and we tried hard to catch the thread of the tale Two irl shrieked, the boat was upset, the three were drowned

All this ca but the captain's heavy thu