Part 4 Cobwebs and Gossamer Chapter XII

So sail did get shortened more or less in time even in that ship, and her tall spars never went overboard while I served in her. However, all the time I was with them, Captain S-- and Mr. P-- did not get on very well together. If P-- carried on "like the very devil" because he was too deaf to know how much wind there was, Captain S-- (who, as I hav