While some of Joe [Kennedy]'s classmates had connived to get into battle, joining the French Foreign Legion or the Canadian forces, Joe connived to get out.

an obediential subjection to the Lord of Nature

Witless hizzie, e'en 's you like, The ne'er a doit I 'm carin'; But men maun be the first to speak, An' wanters maun be speerin'.

One thing that continued unchanged was the division of the crew into two watches, each led by a tindal.