There's days when I feel uneasy every minute and hanker for a deck underneath me.

The settin' room floor stays altogether too quiet on a day like that; I'd like to feel it heavin' over a ground swell." "Say, Bos'n," he said a few minutes later; "I've been thinkin' about you.

You've been to school, haven't you ?" "Course I have," was the rather indignant answer.

"I went two years in Concord.

Mamma used to help me nights, too.