"Joe Weedles o' the 'Gladsome'! Why, dash my eyes, mate, you must be my brother!" "Are YOU Bill Weedles ?" asked the other.

And then he added, "But no, you can't be.

Bill wasn't no mermaid.

He were a human critter like myself." "That's what I am," said Cap'n Bill hastily.

"I'm a human critter, too.