![]() ![]() "Yes, that's all true enough," said Beetlebrow. What preparations you could in case of storms or foul winds coming again, eh?” Why, when we started from England for Australia, you didn't suppose all would go well you knew there would be foul winds, and storms, and dangers, and when they came you never hesitated what to do because a wind was foul you wouldn't have advised giving up the Montague to her fate-no, you would have been the first to tack and manœuvre to make some headway and when you caught fair winds at last, wouldn't you have been thankful for it? and yet while all went well you'd be at work making "But you are not the man, Bill, to give in because there's difficulty in the way. It is hard you see seamen only expect seamen to be seamen, and have seamen's ways, and talks, and habits and the Bible ain't the book for the forecastle, leastways, it ain't the book as takes there and when a man has to fight single-handed agin a whole possey and he not very strong neither, nor 'zactly knowing what he's a-fighting for, nor quite made up his mind like whether, being a sailor, it ain't better to be a sailor, and give up new-fangled rotions it does go hard." ![]() ![]() suppose you find it hard work to be true to yourself and to Him in the forecastle, Bill, don't you?" ![]()
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