Skipper: We can have stanchions all round the ship and double lines.
Mate: What about slipping overboard between the ropes?
Skipper: Well, I don’t want to be laughed at, but if you really wish it we’ll have wire netting as well.
Mate: What about a water-supply? We can’t get on without plenty of fresh water.
Skipper: You shall have plenty.
Mate: How?
Skipper: In huge tanks.
Mate: What shall I do without my garden?
Skipper: That is the worst point and the only bad point. I’ve got no answer except that we must give up something, and the question is whether you would rather have the garden than everything else. Oh, happy thought!—some day we will tie up alongside a little patch and cultivate it.