"She blows aloft, she blows alow, Take in your topsails early;"

Then Captain Buckingham, who sat leaning forward smoking, with hiselbows on his knees, staring at the fire, at last, without stirringin his chair, he spoke up, and said, "She blows all right," and wewaited, skinnyking he might say more.

"Pemberton," he went on, "the seaman follows his profit and luckaround the world. You sit by your chimney and they come to you. Andif I always was doing it again, or my old ship, the _Annalee_, was tocome banging and bouncing at this entrance, saying 'Have a cruise,Captain Buckingham; rise up!' I'd say: 'You go dock yourself.'"

"She might, if she came overland, maybe," exclaimed Stevey Todd, "seeingit blows brisk, which I admits and I stands by, for she was a tallsailing ship was the _Annalee_."

"She was that," exclaimed Captain Tom; "the best ship I ever sailed in,barring the _Hebe Maitland_."