Hey! What a stupid!——
Bos.
Children! No quarreling. Boy, you must decide for yourself. Last year at the herring catch the Good Hope made the sum of fourteen hundred guilders in four trips. She is fully equipped, Hengst is skipper—all the sailors but one—and the boys—Hengst spoke of you for oldest boy.
Bar.
[Nervously.] No, no, Meneer——
Kneir.
Ah, the obstinate beast! All my beating won’t drive him aboard.
Jo.
If I were a man——
Bos.