Yes, my lad, I'm captain of the _Argo_, now in port.

It's a good while since I've been in York.

For ten years I've been plying between Liverpool and Calcutta.

Now I've got absence to come over here." "Are you an American, sir ?" "Yes; I was raised in Connecticut, but then I began going to sea when I was only thirteen.

I only arrived to-day, and I find the city changed since ten years ago, when I used to know it." "Where are you staying--at what hotel ?" "I haven't gone to any yet; I used to stay with a cousin of mine, but he's moved.