made of humbler stuff. She came out of her stateroom the next evening
as limp as a rag, and clinging to the little bantam as if letting go
would be sure death. Seasickness had completely changed the manner and
carriage of the two people. I could not help wondering if the bantam
saw his advantage as I saw it, and whether, now that he had her down,
he would keep her down? It struck me, while looking at them, that every
man, sure of his sea legs, should early in his married life, take his
wife to sea. It may give him a lifetime of peaceful rest.

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Still speaking of the sea; for I am too far from shore now to turn
back, we had one day of it in which was painfully illustrated the line,
"Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink." The steward, having
been changed from his own ship to ours without notice, had not laid
in his wines and liquors for the voyage. It was awful news when it was
announced after getting out to sea, and paled many a cheek. Much to
our surprise, however, all the next morning one of the passengers
appeared in a state of exhilaration not to be accounted for by anything
we had seen on the table. Later, he appeared still worse, and as he
did not appear at dinner, we concluded that he was drinking to excess
in his room. A passenger said indignantly that "the man was killing
himself," and volunteered to go in and see about him. About dark, that
day, the volunteer made his appearance on deck. After some uncertain
steps he managed to seat himself on a coil of rope. Looking at us with
a look of solemn philanthropy in his face, he announced thickly, that
"I got t'way from'm at last." It was very clear that he had.

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