little difficulty going in quest of the wrinkled one this strange
mentor , Billy found him on off duty in a dog-watch
ruminating by himself seated on a
shot-box of the upper gun-deck now and then surveying
with a somewhat cynical regard
certain of the more swaggering promenaders there. Billy
recounted his trouble, again wondering
how it all happened. The salt seer
attentively listened, accompanying the
foretopman's recital with queer twitchings of his
wrinkles and problematical little
sparkles of his jet-black small ferret eyes. Making
an end of his story, B the foretopman
asked, "And now , Dansker, do tell me what
you think of it." Well then, in his mysterious
little difficulty going in quest of the wrinkled one this strange
mentor , Billy found him on off duty in a dog-watch
ruminating by himself seated on a
shot-box of the upper gun-deck now and then surveying
with a somewhat cynical regard
certain of the more swaggering promenaders there. Billy
recounted his trouble, again wondering
how it all happened. The salt seer
attentively listened, accompanying the
foretopman's recital with queer twitchings of his
wrinkles and problematical little
sparkles of his jet-black small ferret eyes. Making
an end of his story, B the foretopman
asked, "And now , Dansker, do tell me what
you think of it." Well then, in his mysterious
Transcribed by: John Bryant