"'They isn't nobody wants t' hurt a mild man like you.'
"'Pack o' wolves in this here world,' says he. 'No mercy nowhere. You bites or gets bit.'
"Well, well! 'Twas news t' the lad that was I. 'Who tol' you so?' says I.
"'Damme!' says he, 'I found it out.'
"'How?'
"'Jus' by livin' along t' be thirty-odd years.'
"'Why, Skipper Davy,' says I, 'it looks t' me like a kind an' lovely world!'
"'You jus' wait 'til you're thirty-two, like me,' says he, 'an' see how you likes it.'
"'You can't scare me, Skipper Davy!'
"'World's full o' wolves, I tells you!'