Watters nodded. “I do.”
“Well, the oil money and bone money – our share of the sale of the whalebone –can make up more than half our wages at the end of the season.”
“As much as that?”
“Here’s some free advice, Walker. Check your wages when they are paid. Muirhead’s accounts are weighed, so the company keeps any extra, rather than sharing it with the hands. Muirhead’s a stingy bastard, and that’s on a good day.”
The hands swayed the lower topsail aloft, with the words echoing around Lancelot.
Lancelot.“With a gallant ship and a bully crew;
“With a gallant ship and a bully crew;Blow, boys, blow!
Blow, boys, blow!We’re just the boys to pull her through,
We’re just the boys to pull her through,Blow my bully boys blow!”
Blow my bully boys blow!”Watters watched them work, wondering whi
