Many Cargoes

«Yes, I've sailed under some 'cute skippers in my time,» said the night-watchman; «them that go down in big ships see the wonders o' the deep, you know,» he added with a sudden chuckle, «but the one I'm going to tell you about ought never to have been trusted out without 'is ma. A good many o' my skippers had fads, but this one was the worst I ever sailed under. »It's some few years ago now; I'd shipped on his barque, the John Elliott, as slow-going an old tub as ever I w