 it, he’s always wanting oakum to stuff into the toes of his boots.”</p>
<p>“He sleeps in his boots, don’t he? He hasn’t got any hammock; but I’ve seen him lay of nights in a coil of rigging.”</p>
<p>“No doubt, and it’s because of his cursed tail; he coils it down, do ye see, in the eye of the rigging.”</p>
<p>“What’s the old man have so much to do with him for?”</p>
<p>“Striking up a swap or a bargain, I suppose.”</p>
<p>“Bargain?—about what?”</p>
<p>“Why, do ye see, t