1 "And as shipwright and able assistant," she laughed back.
2 Maud took an active part in the drive, and with her cries and flourishings of the broken oar was of considerable assistance.
3 I proceeded to experiment, lashing and wedging the steering-oar until the boat held on fairly well by the wind without my assistance.
4 By now I had developed such skill at surgery that Wolf Larsen, with a few words of advice, left me to my task with a couple of sailors for assistants.
5 I did not see it myself, but my assistants, first one and then the other, deserted me for a few moments to run amidships and look at what was going on.
6 While I toiled at rigging the foremast, Maud sewed on canvas, ready always to drop everything and come to my assistance when more hands than two were required.
7 Nothing was to be seen of the strange steamboat which had caused the disaster, though I heard men saying that she would undoubtedly send boats to our assistance.
8 These men here shoot seals in order to live; for the same reason I sail this schooner; and Mr. Van Weyden, for the present at any rate, earns his salty grub by assisting me.
9 Maud even contrived, at times when all my efforts could not budge the windlass, to hold the turn with one hand and with the other to throw the weight of her slim body to my assistance.
10 Besides my work in the cabin, with its four small state-rooms, I was supposed to be his assistant in the galley, and my colossal ignorance concerning such things as peeling potatoes or washing greasy pots was a source of unending and sarcastic wonder to him.