By this time, Wearie Willie had been replaced by Query, a clinker-built 16-footer that Patrick Senior had commissioned especially for his youngest son from Goddard's of Palm Beach.

Out upon ye, Mr. Saddletree! exclaimed David, . . . out upon your General Assembly, and the back of my hand to your Court o' Session!

[…]undertook at her instance to restore them.

The thing doesn’t make sense to me.