... and the very door-mats are subjected to a daily scrubbing with soap and water. The Dutchman looks with pride upon his little ship; he delights in turning it out clean and orderly. In some cases the Very anchors gleamed like burnished lances in the sun ...

... was a yacht ? went on Isabel. § Yes, the Yacht Eudymion, answered the rescued man. I was her owner - she was a good little ship, but no yacht could live in such a gale. Tshere'i not been the like these thirty years, said the fisherman shaking his ...