I wanted to play.

Here are the rules:

Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. (No cheating!)
Find Page 123.
Find the first 5 sentences.
Post the next 3 sentences.
Tag 5 people.

Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana

The holystone is a large, soft stone, smooth on the bottom, with long ropes attached to each end, by which the crew keep it sliding fore and aft, over the wet, sanded decks.  Smaller hand-stones, which the sailors call "prayer books", are used to scrub in among the crevices and narrow places, where the large holystone will not go.  An hour or two, we were kept at this work, when the head-pump was manned, and all the sand washed from the decks and sides.

I tag kendre flinkmaster captainardi writerliness and leujin (ha, take that!) and anyone else who has a book at hand and wants to play.  :D

P.S. Cuz, I will respond to your tag as soon as I can get over my distaste for disclosing personal facts about myself.  ^_~=