Now you must walk around the ship, and if you see any one spill the least drop of water, or any thing else, on deck, rush up and give him the swab.

There are a good many landlubbers on board, who don't know the rules, and you won't have any trouble in catching them.

Always be careful to keep the swab behind you, out of sight." Frank was a good deal mortified at being the victim of this novel mode of punishment; but he consoled himself with the thought that he would soon learn his duty, and be enabled to avoid all such scrapes.

He walked about the vessel for an hour, trailing the swab along the deck behind him; but it seemed as though every one was particularly careful.
Meanwhile Archie, who had learned the particulars of the case from Simpson, was acting as a sort of scout, hoping to be of some assistance to his cousin.

But he looked and waited in vain for some one to violate the rule, and finally he resolved to make use of a little strategy in releasing Frank.
Discovering a man coming out of the galley with a pail of water, Archie walked rapidly down the deck, and jostled him with sufficient force to empty half the contents of his pail on the deck.