Now there's plenty you have seen, I wouldn't wonder.

Let's see, you was born in Belfast, you said.

Live there long, did you ?" "Yes, until I went away to school." "Your father, he went to sea, did he ?" "Yes.

But his ship was lost, with all hands, when I was a baby." "But your Uncle Jim wa'n't lost.

You remember him well; you said so.
Tell me something you remember." Before the young man was aware of it, he was telling of his Uncle Jim, of the latter's return from voyages, of his own home life, of his mother, and of the village where he spent his boyhood.