With a yell Mr.Tarbill slid to the stern, clutched at the gunwale, and disappeared with a splash.
"Man overboard!" "Of all the fools!" muttered Mr.Carr.

"Why couldn't he sit still and behave himself ?" His patience, so far as the nervous passenger was concerned, was completely exhausted.
Bob reached for the boathook, and as soon as Mr.Tarbill came up, he caught the iron in the man's coat and hauled him to the side.
Then the captain and Tim Flynn hauled him back on board.
"Help! I am drowning! Save me!" spluttered the nervous passenger.
"I'll go to the bottom of the Pacific!" "No, you won't," answered Captain Spark.

"But after this you had better sit still." "Oh, what a trying experience!" wailed the unfortunate one.

He cleared his mouth of water.

"Why did you let me go overboard ?" he demanded.