I guess maybe Captain Savage liked Pee-wee.

Anyway, he called for Pee-wee and me to go up in the pilot house, and it was fine to watch him steer and pull the rope that made the whistle blow, Jiminety, didn't we jump the first time we heard it! Captain Savage said, "Yer see it don't cost me nuthin' fur a blow-out, as you might say.

Now, if this here old craft was an automobile, how much would I have to pay for tires with a blow-out every minute, huh ?" Then he'd look awful funny like, at Pee-wee.
You can bet Captain Savage was nice to us fellows and we all liked him.
He had to stop at Peekskill and he took us all ashore for a peek-- that's what he said.

And he treated us all to sodas.

You get dandy raspberry sodas in Peekskill.
After that we started for Poughkeepsie and that was as far as he was going to tow us, because he had to tow a barge down to New York.