Chapter 33 HOME FROM SEA.

"The dark-blue jacket that enfolds the sailor's manly breast

Bears more of real honor than the star and ermine vest;

The tithe of folly in his head may wake the landsman's mirth,

But Nature proudly owns him as her child of sterling worth."

-Eliza Cook.

"Clear the track! off we go! whip up old lazybones there, and don't let him crawl