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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: merchants for the trade. She'll be out in all shapes o' weathers.
Does that make any odds?"
'"Why, then," says I, "the first heavy sea she sticks her nose
into'll claw off half that scroll-work, and the next will finish it. If
she's meant for a pleasure-ship give me my draft again, and I'll
porture you a pretty, light piece of scroll-work, good cheap. If
she's meant for the open- sea, pitch the draft into the fire. She can
never carry that weight on her bows.
'He looks at me squintlings and plucks his under-lip.
'"Is this your honest, unswayed opinion?" he says.
'"Body o' me! Ask about!" I says. "Any seaman could tell you
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