He remembered 'em, of course; he can remember Adam, if you let him tell it.

He told me a whole mess about old man Thayer and old man Richards and their granddads and grandmarms, and what houses they lived in, and how many hens they kept, and what their dog's name was, and how they come to name him that, and enough more to fill a hogshead.

'Twas ten o'clock afore he got out of Genesis, and down so fur as John and Emily.

He remembered their bein' married, and their baby--Mary Thayer, Bos'n's ma--bein' born.
"Folks used to call John Thayer a smart young feller, so Seth said.

They used to cal'late that he'd rise high in the seafarin' and ship-ownin' line.