'He
seems better cut out to pink toads.'
'If we want your opinion upon such matters we will ask for it,' the
captain observed, looking sternly upon the insulting ruffian.
'We are to live together, so we may as well commence by getting
acquainted with one another, youngster,' the captain said. 'This
fellow, whose tongue has just wagged, is Joe Murfrey, a famous
blackguard in his own particular line. Yon respectable flaxen
gentleman,' pointing to a villainous looking person with a greenish
skin, of flaxen hair, and an unsteady, treacherous eye, 'gives moral
tone to our little household. He, on occasion, devotes himself with
much ardour to religious exercises. For the sake of being familiar we
call him Jud Sykes.'
The hateful looking scoundrel bowed and said:
'I am happy to welcome you to our poor abode.' And as he drew near:
'Ah, so young and so fair, to stain his soul with the blood of a
fellow-creature! Oh, my poor young man, repentance, repentance with
us here in nature's sanctuary, where the grandeur of God's works,
without any of the disfigurement of man, is all that remains to you
now.
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