Ship's Company by W. W. Jacobs, Fiction, Short Stories, Sea Stories, Action & Adventure

"Go on," said Mr. Gibbs, gloomily. "Go on. Stand a man 'arf a pint, and then go and hurt 'is feelings. Twice yesterday I wondered to myself what it would feel like to make a hole in the water.""Lots o' chaps do do it," said Mr. Brown, musingly."And leave their wives and families to starve," said Mr. Gibbs, icily.