But he kind of made me think of Zeb, all the same." The first day of school was, of course, a Monday.

On Sunday afternoon Captain Cy and Bos'n went for a walk.

These walks had become a regular part of the Sabbath programme, the weather, of course, permitting.

After church the pair came home for dinner.

The meal being eaten, the captain would light a cigar--a pipe was now hardly "dressed-up" enough for Sunday--and, taking his small partner by the hand, would lead the way across the fields, through the pines and down by the meadow "short cut" to the cemetery.