more beautiful English girls.
If in vain the good Chaplain
sought to impress the young barbarian
with ideas of death akin to those conveyed
in the skull, dial, and cross-bones on old
tombstones; equally futile to all appearance
were his efforts to present to bring home
to him the thought of religion salvation and a
Saviour. Billy listened, but less out of
awe or reverence perhaps then than from a certain
natural politeness; doubtless at bottom
regarding all that in much the same
way that most mariners of his class
take any discourse abstract or out of
the common tone of the work-a-day
world.
more beautiful English girls.
If in vain the good Chaplain
sought to impress the young barbarian
with ideas of death akin to those conveyed
in the skull, dial, and cross-bones on old
tombstones; equally futile to all appearance
were his efforts to present to bring home
to him the thought of religion salvation and a
Saviour. Billy listened, but less out of
awe or reverence perhaps then than from a certain
natural politeness; doubtless at bottom
regarding all that in much the same
way that most mariners of his class
take any discourse abstract or out of
the common tone of the work-a-day
world.
Transcribed by: Christopher Ohge