The Innocents Abroad

see with the glasses. We could not properly begin a pleasure excursion on Sunday; we could not offer untried stomachs to so pitiless a sea as that. We must lie still

have a good, long, unprejudiced look at the passengers at a time when they should be free from self

of heads was apt to make one think it was all gray. But it was not. There was a tolerably fair sprinkling of young folks, and a

satisfied with the picnic then and with all its belongings. All my malicious instincts were dead within me; and as America faded out of sight, I think a spirit of charity rose up in their place that was as boundless, for the time being, as the

sun in midheaven, and at the next it was trying to harpoon a shark in the bottom of the ocean. What a weird sensation it is to feel the stern of a ship sinking swiftly

peculiarly and insufferably self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick. Soon a venerab

g, Sir. It i

id, "Oh, my!" and then staggered away

was projected from the same do

There is no hurry. I

n his stomach and said "

harged abruptly from the same door, clawin

a fine day for pleasurin

, m

re and was bombarded with old gentlemen for an hour,

n. I like it. The passengers are not garrulous, but still they are sociable. I

y the cabin lamps when it is storming outside is pleasant; walking the quarterdeck in the moonlight is pleasant; smoking in the breezy foretop is pleasant w

was climbing up the quarterdeck when the vessel's stem was in the sky; I

er. Read the sign up there-

saw a long spyglass lying on a desk in one of the upper-deck state-rooms ba

s off! Come

I said to a deck-swe

irate with the whiskers

ley-executive offi

ng better to do, fell to carving a railing with my kni

than to be whittling the ship all to pieces

and found th

d, animated outrage yond

he owner of the ship-he'

n a bench. Now, I said, they "take the sun" through this thing; I should think I might see that vessel

o know about taking the sun, I'd as soon tell you as not-but I don't like to tr

call from the other side

gorilla yonder with the s

Jones, sir-t

u-now I ask you as a man and a brother-do you think I could venture to thro

d fetch the captain of the watch may be, bec

I thought, if five cooks can spoil a broth, what m