One day he approached Simpson who was seated on a coil of rope, spinning one of his forecastle yarns to Frank and Archie, and said: "Shipmate, do you know any one aboard here named Jack Smith ?" "No," answered Simpson, with the utmost gravity, "I don't know any one who goes by that name." "Well, there _is_ a chap here by that name," said Jenkins, "and I wish I could find him.

He got me into a bad scrape." But, it is needless to say, he never found Jack Smith..