CHAPTER XII 

So sailed the Ship of Fools--Michael playing with Scraps, respecting Cocky and by Cocky being bullied and wheedled, singing with Steward and worshipping him; Daughtry drinking his six quarts of beer each day, collecting his wages the first of each month, and admiring Charles Stough Greenleaf as the finest man on board; Kwaque serving and loving his master and thickening and darkening and creasing his brow with the growing leprous infiltration; Ah Moy avoiding the Black Papuan as the very plague, washing himself continuously and boiling his blankets once a week; Captain Doane doing the navigating and worrying about his flat-building in San Francisco; Grimshaw resting his ham-hands on his colossal knees and girding at the pawnbroker to contribute as much to the adventure as he was contributing from his wheat-ranches; Simon Nishikanta wiping his sweaty neck with the greasy silk handkerchief and painting endless water-colours; the mate patiently stealing the ship's latitude and longitude with his duplicate key; and the Ancient Mariner, solacing himself with Scotch highballs, smoking fragrant three-for-a-dollar Havanas that were charged to the adventure, and for ever maundering about the hell of the longboat, the cross-bearings unnamable, and the treasure a fathom under the sand. 

Came a stretch of ocean that to Daughtry was like all other stretches of ocean and unidentifiable from them. No land broke the sea-rim. The ship the centre, the horizon was the invariable and eternal circle of the world. The magnetic needle in the binnacle was the point on which the _Mary Turner_ ever pivoted. The sun rose in the undoubted east and set in the undoubted west, corrected and proved, of course, by declination, deviation, and variation; and the nightly march of the stars and constellations proceeded across the sky. 

1. What was Michael playing with?
2. who was drinking beer?
3. when does he get paid?
4. Who was washing all the time?
5. what was he doing with his blankets?
6. how often?
7. who was the navigator?
8. what was he concerned about?
9. where was it?
10. where were Grimshaw's hands?
11. What was Simon wiping his neck with/
12. was it clean?
13. is he a painter?
14. who was drinnking scotch?
15. does he smoke, too?
16. what?
17. Did Daughtty think the ocean was just like the other parts?
18. Could he see land?

Provide a numbered list of answers.
1. Scraps
2. Daughtry
3. first of each month
4. Ah Moy
5. boiling
6. once a week
7. Doane
8. flat-building
9. in San Francisco
10. on his knees
11. handkerchief
12. no
13. yes
14. Ancient Mariner
15. yes
16. Havanas
17. yes
18. No