He "works like a horse, eats like a pig, and sleeps like a dead man," and is soon a valued member of the crew. Harvey soon begins changing, becoming more humble and physically fit and soaking up knowledge of the schooner, the sea, the fish, the weather, and the men. Harvey, who has never done any work in his life, must earn his keep as a supercargo member of the crew because Troop doesn't believe his "crazy" story about being the son of a millionaire and so won't leave his fishing grounds to return the boy to his parents until after the end of the fishing season. A Paean to Boyhood, Atlantic Fishermen, & Americaįifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne, Jr., a spoiled rich boy possessed of a "mix of irresolution, bravado, and cheap smartness," and an overly protective mother and an overly driven multi-millionaire business tycoon father, is just on his way to Europe to finish his education when he's washed over board his ocean liner and fished out of the North Atlantic by a Portuguese man rowing a dory belonging to Disko Troop, captain of the "We're Here," a cod fishing schooner out of Gloucester, Massachusetts.
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