8 1 Saturday Nov 17 11 13 Noting this uncomplaining
acquiesence, all but cheerful one might
say, the shipmaster cast ^ turned a surprized
glance of now silent reproach at the sailor.

Now he the ^ The shipmaster was sea-captain one of those worthy
mortals found in every p vocation
however even the humble humbler ^ ones —the sort of person
whom everybody agrees in calling
"a respectable man." And—nor so
strange to report as ^ it may appear to be—
though a ploughman of the troubled
waters, and a life-long contender contending
with the intractable elements, alike
in ature Nature and man there was
nothing the this honest fellow soul
8 1 Saturday Nov 17 11 13 Noting this uncomplaining
acquiesence, all but cheerful one might
say, the shipmaster cast ^ turned a surprized
glance of now silent reproach at the sailor.

Now he the ^ The shipmaster was sea-captain one of those worthy
mortals found in every p vocation
however even the humble humbler ^ ones —the sort of person
whom everybody agrees in calling
"a respectable man." And—nor so
strange to report as ^ it may appear to be—
though a ploughman of the troubled
waters, and a life-long contender contending
with the intractable elements, alike
in ature Nature and man there was
nothing the this honest fellow soul

Transcribed by: John Bryant