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My companion on the yard was a lad , who came out in the ship a weak , puny boy , from one of the Boston schools ; - " no larger than a spritsail sheet knot , " nor " heavier than a paper of lampblack , " and " not strong enough to haul a shad off a gridiron , " but who was now " as long as a spare topmast , strong enough to knock down an ox , and hearty enough to eat him . Hope shook me by the hand , said he should soon be well again , and ready to work for me when I came upon the coast , next voyage , as officer of the ship ; and told me not to forget , when I became captain , how to be kind to the sick . I shall never forget the gratitude that he expressed . Misfortune , extravagance , and the want of funds , or any manner of getting interest on money , soon eat the estate up , and Don Juan Bandini returned from Mexico accomplished , poor , and proud , and without any office or occupation , to lead the life of most young men of the better families - dissolute and extravagant when the means are at hand ; ambitious at heart , and impotent in act ; often pinched for bread ; keeping up an appearance of style , when their poverty is known to each half-naked Indian boy in the street , and they stand in dread of every small trader and shopkeeper in the place . With us , the chorus seemed almost to raise the decks of the ship , and might be heard at a great distance , ashore . However , I did not starve , for the mate , who was a man as well as a sailor , and had always been a good friend to me , smuggled a pan of rice into the galley , and told the cook to boil it for me , and not let the " old man " see it . In addition to these , they had picked up at the theatres and other places a few songs of a little more genteel cast , which they were very proud of ; and I shall never forget hearing an old salt , who had broken his voice by hard drinking on shore , and bellowing from the mast-head in a hundred north-westers , with all manner of ungovernable trills and quavers - in the high notes , breaking into a rough falsetto - and in the low ones , growling along like the dying away of the boatswain 's " all hands ahoy ! In this state , the steward applied to the captain for some rice to boil for me , but he only got only got a - " No !