e Sermon is done, Posh. You _know_ I am not against Good
Beer while at Work: nor a cheerful Glass after work: only do not let
it spoil the stomach, or the Head.

"Your's truly,
"E. FG."

CHAPTER IV
THE _MUM TUM_

FitzGerald having made up his mind to give Posh a lift by going into
partnership with him began by finding not only the money for the building
of the boat but a name for her when she should be ready for sea. It
seemed to him that "Meum and Tuum" would be an appropriate name, and the
_Mum Tum_ is remembered along the coast to this day as a queer,
meaningless title for a boat. At a later date FitzGerald is reported to
have said that his venture turned out all Tuum and no Meum so far as he
was concerned. But it is possible that Posh dealt more fairly with him
than he thought. At all events Posh thinks he did.

The boat was to be paid for in instalments. So much on laying the keel,
so much when the deck was on, etc., etc., and FitzGerald took the
greatest interest in her building. He had first thought of christening
the lugger "Marian Halcombe," after Wilkie Collins's heroine in _The
Woman in White_, as appears from a letter to Frederic Tennyson, written
in January, 1867 (_Letters_, II, 90, Eversley Edition):--

"I really think of having a Herring-lugger I am building named Marian
Halcombe. . . . Yes, a Herring-lugger; which is to pay for the money
she costs unless she goes to the Bottom: and which meanwhile amuses me
to consult about with my Sea-folks. I go to Lowestoft now and then by
way of salutary Change; and there smoke a Pipe every night with a
delightful Chap who is to be Captain."

Again on June 17th (_Letters_, II, 94, Eversley Edition) he wrote to the
late Professor Cowell of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge:--

"I am here in my little Ship" (the _Scandal_) "with no company but my
crew" (Tom Newson and his nephew Jack) ". . . and my other--Captain of
the Lugger now a-building: a Fellow I never tire of studying--If he
_should_ turn out knave, I shall have done with all Faith in my own
Judgment: and if he should go to the Bottom of the Sea in the Lugger--I
shan't cry for the Lugger."

There was some delay in getting the deck planks on the lugger, for
FitzGerald wrote to Mr. Spalding on May 18th, 1867 (_Two Suffolk
Friends_, p. 110), that she would be decked "next Week," whereas her
planking was not finished till June, and, on a Fri