? ? ? ? 'I must say I don't understand your technicalities,' she said; 'but I do your conclusion, and I don't like it. You cannot steer night and day and forever. So I shall expect, after breakfast, to receive my first lesson. And then you shall lie down and sleep. We'll stand watches just as they do on ships.'
? ? ? ? 'I don't see how I am to teach you,' I made protest. 'I am just learning for myself. You little thought when you trusted yourself to me that I had had no experience whatever with small boats. This is the first time I have ever been in one.'
? ? ? ? 'Then we'll learn together, sir. And since you've had a night's start you shall teach me what you have learned. And now, breakfast. My! this air does give one an appetite!'
? ? ? ? 'No coffee,' I said regretfully, passing her buttered sea-biscuits and a slice of canned tongue. 'And there will be no tea, no soups, nothing hot till we have made land somewhere, somehow.'
? ? ? ? After the simple breakfast, capped with a cup of cold water, Maud took her lesson in steering.
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