CHAPTER XIV.
HIGH WATER AT YARDLEY Ten years have passed away.
The sturdy little fellow in knee-trousers is a lad of seventeen, big and strong for his age; Tod is three years older, and the two are still inseparable.

The brave commander of the pirate ship is now a full-fledged fisherman and his father's main dependence.

Archie is again his chief henchman, and the two spend many a morning in Tod's boat when the blue-fish are running.

Old Fogarty does not mind it; he rather likes it, and Mother Fogarty is always happier when the two are together.
"If one of 'em gits overboard," she said one day to her husband, "t'other kin save him." "Save him! Well, I guess!" he replied.

"Salt water skims off Archie same's if he was a white bellied gull; can't drown him no more'n you kin a can buoy." The boy has never forgotten Scootsy's epithet, although he has never spoken of it to his mother--no one knows her now by any other name.