'Yes, ma'am; fourteen years.'
'On what ship?'
'Bless your heart, on fifty ships.'
'French?'
'French and English and Spanish; mostly Spanish.'
'Ah?'
'Yes, and the more fool I was.'
'How so?'
'Oh, it was a dog's life. I'd drown any dog that would play half the mean tricks I used to see.'
'And you never had a hand in any yourself?'