It will be some days before we sail, and I shall have quietly conveyed on board such belongings as you need." She was very happy, and she laughed.
"Yours will be an easily laden ship," said she, "for you take in with you no great store of goods for traffic.

But I suppose you design to pick up your cargo among the islands where you cruise, and at a less cost, perchance, than it could be procured here ?" "Yes, yes," he said; "you have hit it fairly, my little girl, you have hit it fairly." New annoyances now began to beset Major Bonnet.

What his daughter had remarked in pleasantry, the people of the town began to talk about unpleasantly.

Here was a good-sized craft about to set sail, with little or no cargo, but with a crew apparently much larger than her requirements, but not yet large enough for the desires of her owner.

To be sure, as Major Bonnet did not know anything about ships, he was bound to do something odd when he bought one and set forth to sail upon her, but there were some odd things which ought to be looked into; and there were people who advised that the attention of the colonial authorities should be drawn to this ship of their farmer townsman.