Panel 1 [Mathews bows towards the two boys, scowling. Silas looks like he's holding back vomit, and Jackson is looking at the first mate defiantly.]
MATHEWS: What’s oakum? Hell. Maybe if you reach ‘tween your ears you’ll find some where your brain’s supposed t’be.
Panel 2 [Shot over Mathews shoulder as Ezra comes up behind him.]
EZRA: It’s old fibers. We use it to caulk the seams.
Panel 3 [Ezra looks at the two boys, pointing his thumb over at a group of others behind him (Samuel Nelson and Afonso Borges) sitting on the deck unraveling ropes]
EZRA: See those others, green as you? They’re pullin’ old rope apart—-that’s what the mate’s askin’ of you.
Panel 4 [Ezra stepping back as Mathews roughly pulls Silas and Jackson to their feet]
MATHEWS: That’s right. So you bring your arse to anchor over there and join ‘em.
Panel 5 [Mathews looks over at Ezra as Ezra’s starting to walk away.]
MATHEWS: I know you’re new to this, but you needn’t hold any lads’ hands here. They gotta come out from behind their mother’s skirts n’ figure it out.
EZRA: Showin’ someone how the work is done gets the work done faster, Mr. Mathews
