"I don't know much about Joe, seein' as we haven't met before for many a long year, an' all I remember about our boyhood days is that we fit an' pulled hair most o' the time.

But what worries me most is Joe's lookin' so much like me myself, wooden leg an' all.

Don't you think it's rather cheeky an' unbrotherly, Trot ?" "Perhaps he can't help it," suggested the child.

"And anyhow, he'll never be able to live on land again." "No," said Cap'n Bill with a sigh.

"Joe's a fish, now, an' so he ain't likely to be took for me by one of our friends on the earth.".