human
She'll trim with the staysail if we haul down another reef,
gpt
We'll try to get a bit of galvanized steel in Nanaimo, he said.
human
I can't risk another smash.
gpt
You'd better be prepared for one, if you mean to drive her as you have been doing. He flung back the saloon scuttle.
human
You'd have swamped her in another hour or two--the cabin floorings are all awash.
gpt
Then hadn't you better pump her out? retorted Vane.
human
After that, you can light the stove. It's beginning to dawn on me that it's a long while since I had anything worth speaking of to eat. The kind of lunch you brought along in the basket isn't sustaining.