BEFORE going to bed at night the Captain always wrote in his log book. A log book is the diary of a ship at sea and the Captain pretended to himself that his house was a ship. He was more used to ships than to houses.
"This day comes in fair with light westerly breeze," he wrote carefully.
"At four bells, morning watch (which is the sea way of saying ten o'clock in the morning) boarded the Lively Ann. Found all shipshape. Painted rail.
"During the afternoon watch, some trouble in the galley (that referred to Susannah's chasing the Cat with a broom).
