A scow's more her size, ain't it ?" "Scow ?" Cleggett frowned.

The Jasper B.a scow! "You mean a schooner, don't you ?" "Schooner ?" Mr.Goldberg grinned good-naturedly at his departing customer.

"A kind of a schooner-scow, huh ?" "No, sir, a schooner!" said Cleggett, reddening, and turning in the doorway.

"Understand me, Mr.Goldberg, a schooner, sir! A schooner!" And standing with a frown on his face until every vestige of the smile had died from Mr.Goldberg's lips, Cleggett repeated once more: "A schooner, Mr.Goldberg!" "Yes, sir--there's no doubt of it--a schooner, Mr.Cleggett," said Mr.
Goldberg, turning pale and backing away from the door.
The ordinary man inspects a house or a horse first and buys it, or fails to buy it, afterward; but genius scorns conventions; Cleggett was not an ordinary man; he often moved straight towards his object by inspiration; great poets and great adventurers share this faculty; Cleggett paid for the Jasper B.first and went back to inspect his purchase later.
The vessel lay about two miles from the center of Fairport.

He could get within half a mile of it by trolley.