And he was in such a hurry that he didn't come on the house-boat at all.

But he said we had a mighty neat, comfortable craft, and that it looked as if it might have slid off some street or other into the water.

He was awful funny.
Pretty soon we were sailing up the Hudson alongside of the _General Grant_.

The day before I thought that when the tug came it would tow us behind with a long rope and it seemed funny like, to be tied fast alongside the tug.

It seemed kind of as if the house-boat was being arrested--you know how I mean.
Anyway, I liked that way best because we could be always climbing back and forth, and believe me, most of us were on the tug all the time.