Question

Laughter at Sea A passenger boat was moving slowly in a thick fog. On deck an old man, rather frightened, asked a sailor, "How far are we from land?" "Half a mile," he answered. "Where?" said the old man. "Straight down," was the reply.

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Answer 1

Answer:

This a paragraph from the chapter "Laughter a the Sea". It means that a boat for passengers (example: Yacht) was moving slowly at a place where there was thick fog. On the deck (the upper floor of the ship) a scared old man asked the *sailor of the boat that how far are they from the land. The *sailor told him that that they were half a mile (0.805 kilometres) away from land. The old man then asked that where they were going. The *sailor replied that they were going straight down.

Sailor: a person who works on a ship or a person who sails a boat.