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Moreover, he thought considerably
better of the faithful Hobbs for an amazing exposition of human
equality in the matter of a pair of boots that he desired to wear
that morning but which happened to be stowed away in a cabin trunk.
He told Hobbs to go to the devil and Hobbs repeated the injunction,
with especial heat, to the boots, when he bumped his head in hauling
them out of the trunk. Whereupon R. Schmidt said to Hobbs: "Good for
you. Hobbs. Go on, please. Don't mind me. It was quite a thump,
wasn't it?" And Hobbs managed, between other words, to say that it
was a whacking thump, and one he would not forget to his dying day--
(if he lived through this one!).
"And you'd do well to sit in the smoke-room, sir," further advised
the sailor-man, clinging to the rail with one hand and pocketing the
coin with the other.
"No," said R. Schmidt resolutely. "I don't like the air in the smoke-
room."
"There's quite a bit of air out 'ere, sir."
"I need quite a bit."
"I should think you might, sir, being a 'ealthy, strappin' sort of a
chap, sir.


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