"I would like to go on shore again," I added, candidly.
"On shore again! I didn't take you for a chicken."
"I don't think I am a chicken, but I don't like the idea of being with those fellows forward."
"What's the matter with them?"
"They are all drunk."
"Drunk! What of it? So am I. That is, I'm reasonably drunk. I know what I'm about, and so do they."
"I don't think many of them do know what they are about. I never heard such awful profanity before in my life."
"O, well, my lad, you will soon get used to that," laughed Captain Farraday.
"Not if I can help it, sir."
"But you are not going to back out now, Farringford?"