I suppose it was th’ strong light.  I didn’t have anny aversion to food.  Not at all.  But somehow I didn’t like th’ smell iv food.  It was disagreeable to me an’ it seemed to make th’ place in me head worse.  Sivral times I wint to th’ dinin’-room intindin’ to jine th’ jovyal comp’ny there but quit at th’ dure.  It was very sthrange.  I don’t know how to account f’r it.  Very few people were sea-sick on th’ v’yage, but sivral hundherd who were injyin’ paddlin’ a spoon in a cup iv beef tea on deck spoke iv havin’ th’ same sinsation.  I didn’t speak iv it to th’ ship’s doctor.  I’d as lave carry me ailments to a harness maker as to a ship’s doctor.  But there it was, an’ fr’m me pint iv view it was th’ most important ivint iv th’ passage.

“Next to that th’ most excitin’ thing was thryin’ to find annybody that wud take money fr’m me.  It’s a tur-rble awkward thing to have to force money on an Englishman in a uniform like an admiral’s an’ talkin’ with an accent that manny iv th’ finest people on th’ deck were thryin’ to imitate, but I schooled mesilf to it.  An’ sthrange to say they niver refused.  They were even betther thin that.  I was lavin’ th’ ship whin th’ fellow that pulled th’ plug out iv th’ other man’s bath f’r me touched me on th’ shoulder.  I turned an’ see a frindly gleam in his eye that made me wondher if he had a knife.  I give him what they call five bobs over there, which is wan dollar an’ twinty cints iv our money.  He touched his cap an’ says Cue.  I was greatly moved.  But it’s done wan thing f’r me.  It’s made me competint f’r anny office connected with th’ legal departmint iv a sthreet railway.  Be hivens, I cud hand a piece iv change to a judge iv th’ supreem coort.  I hear th’ Conyard line has passed a dividend.  They ought to make a merger with th’ head stoort,’ says he.

“An’ there ye ar-re.  A boat’s a boat aven whin it looks like a hotel.  But it’s wondherful annyhow.  Whin ye come to think iv it ’tis wondherful that anny man cud cross th’ Atlantic in annything.  Th’ Atlantic Ocean is a fine body iv wather, but it’s a body iv wather just th’ same.  It wasn’t intinded to be thravelled on.  Ye cud put ye’er foot through it annywhere.  It’s sloppy goin’ at best.  Th’ on’y time a human being can float in it is afther he’s dead.  A man throws a horseshoe into it an’ th’ horseshoe sinks.  This makes him cross an’ he builds a boat iv th’ same mateeryal as a millyon horseshoes, loads it up with machinery, pushes it out on th’ billows an’ goes larkin’ acrost thim as aisy as ye plaze.  If he didn’t go over on a large steel skyscraper he’d take a dure off its hinges an’ go on that.

“All ye have to do is to tell him there’s land on th’ other side iv th’ ragin’ flood an’ he’ll say:  ‘All right, I’ll take a look at it.’  Ye talk about th’ majesty iv th’ ocean but what about th’ majesty iv this here little sixty-eight be eighteen inches bump iv self-reliance that treats it like th’ dirt undher his feet?  It’s