"To work?"
"Yes; we have to study and recite our lessons; but there are plenty of books in the library."
"May I go into the school-room, and see what is done?"
"Certainly, if you please. You may come into our class. It is Greek, navigation, and French to-day."
"I will join the class, for I have studied Greek and French, but I don't know anything about navigation."
"The lesson to-day in navigation is, 'To regulate a chronometer by means of a transit instrument;' and I have no doubt you will find it very interesting," laughed the commodore.
"I have no doubt I shall, but I'm afraid my interest will centre in your perplexity."
"Thank you; but I have learned my lesson, and don't intend to be perplexed. Just as soon as a breeze comes, we shall get under way."
"That means to start, I suppose."
"'Only this, and nothing more;' but if I should say start, my shipmates would laugh at me, and declare that I was not fit to be an officer."