"I believe that with all my might, and this experience is worth a hundred dollars a day to me," answered Scott.
"Call it fifty," laughed the other.
"It is very valuable to me, whatever you call it in figures. I have a big ambition in this direction; and it is bigger now than it was before I became a decent fellow. I think Captain Ringgold will make a man of me."
"It looks as though he had already done so," added Louis.
"Perhaps he has not finished his work yet. We are going along very nicely now, my hearty."
"We are indeed. The Maud rolls a good deal"—
"You don't expect her to go along on an even keel in such a sea as this, do you?" interposed the captain.
"Certainly not; she is behaving very well."
"She is behaving like a lady in a ballroom!" exclaimed Scott with enthusiasm. "She has a good deal of motion, like the belle of the waltz; but her motion is poetry."
"She is waltzing along very well."