Rudyard Kipling

“ So Harvey rang the bell.
"Yes, they slow daown one turn o' their blame propeller," said Dan, applying himself to Manuel's conch, "fer to keep inside the law, an' that's consolin' when we're all at the bottom. Hark to her' She's a humper!"
"Aoooo - whoooo - whupp!" went the siren. "Wingle - tingle - tink," went the bell. "Graaa - ouch!" went the conch, while sea and sky were all milled up in milky fog. Then Harvey felt that he was near a moving body, and found himself looking up and up at the wet edge of a cliff-like bow, leaping, it seemed, directly over the schooner. ”

“ Presently the little man came up the steps, huge drops of sweat on his face, and looked at the crew. Dan was still sobbing by the wheel.
"He don't know us," Salters groaned. "It's all to do over again, checkers and everything - an' what'll he say to me?"
Penn spoke; they could hear that it was to strangers. "I have prayed," said he. "Our people believe in prayer. I have prayed for the life of this man's son. Mine were drowned before my eyes - she and my eldest and - the others. Shall a man be more wise than his Maker? ”

“ Disko pointed to Salters.
"Ye hain't - ye hain't!" cried the sea-farmer, twisting his hands together. "Ye've more'n earned your keep twice-told; "an' there's money owin' you, Penn, besides ha'af o' my quarter-share in the boat, which is yours fer value received."
"You are good men. I can see that in your faces. But -"
"Mother av Mercy," whispered Long Jack, "an' he's been wid us all these trips! He's clean bewitched."
A schooner's bell struck up alongside, and a voice hailed through the fog: "O Disko! 'Heard abaout the Jennie Cushman?"
"They have found his son," cried Penn. ”