What a shot! What a dead-eye Dick! the guy with the apron would say as he pointed to me and yelled out to the passing crowd.

O! trustless state of earthly things, and slipper hope / Of mortal men.

He was so guilt-ridden that he could not face his father.

However, he was really pointing out that there was no evidence of the yawl rig having been used by the pilots, and went on to deal with the 'yawlers' without apparently realizing that they had a special type of craft.