"Thank you," he said; "your zeal is very commendable; but I daresay we can muster eyes enough to maintain a lookout without keeping you on deck in your watch below.  However, since you are here, perhaps you will oblige me by finding the master and asking him if he has made up his reckoning to eight bells.  If he has, request him to be good enough to bring it, with the chart, to me, here, on the quarter-deck.  If he has not, say that I shall be obliged if he will do so at once."