The merchant vessel : a sailor boy's voyages around the world . al man can to serve you. Cursingyou for a worthless, shiftless fellow, he gladly divides with youthe last rag of his scanty wardrobe. Ask him for a needleful ofthread, and he fretfully flings a whole skein at you, with an airunder which not the most practised physiognomist could detectthe pleasure which it really gives him to be of any assistance. So, too, on deck; let him have the very best of the work,and he will growl ; and should heâa most improbable thingâhave no fault to find on his own account, he straightway takes upthe ca
The merchant vessel : a sailor boy's voyages around the world . al man can to serve you. Cursingyou for a worthless, shiftless fellow, he gladly divides with youthe last rag of his scanty wardrobe. Ask him for a needleful ofthread, and he fretfully flings a whole skein at you, with an airunder which not the most practised physiognomist could detectthe pleasure which it really gives him to be of any assistance. So, too, on deck; let him have the very best of the work,and he will growl ; and should heâa most improbable thingâhave no fault to find on his own account, he straightway takes upthe cause of some one else, and expends his powers on theimaginary grievance of a shipmate. This petulant spirit is notliked in American ships, and many captains will not haveBritish sailors at all. In fact, there is no reason in theirgrumbling. Half starved and badly treated in their ownships, they gladly avail themselves of am* chance to leavethem, and enter on board a Yankee. But no sooner are thevhere than they grumble at the very privileges thev enjoy, and. AN INDIAN PAGODA. ENGLISH GEORGE. 143 arc ceaseless in their regrets at having left, their own flag. Tdsuch an extent is this carried, that To growl like a Lime-juicer* has become a proverb among American sailors. The owners of the vessel, who had themselves made choice ofthe crew, had used especial care to ship no Englishmen; but oikhad slipped himself in among us, unknown to them, and we werenot long out when his constitutional infirmity broke nut. Akinder-hearted or more crabbed fellow than George never one could have been readier to confer a favor, and, truly, noone could have done it with a worse grace. The first head wind was a fit occasion for him to give ventto the accumulated spleen of several weeks. Coming on deckand finding the yards braced sharp up, he solemnlv shook hisfist to the windward, and apostrophized the breeze somewhatas follows : Ay ! I knew it; a head wind, and here well be beatingabout for
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