Croesus Jr., fond of display, bought a little steam yacht--one hundred tons.

After two costly months of yachting, Croesus Jr., waxing thrifty and bewailing expense, laid up the yacht in a shipyard on the Harlem River.

The yacht's name was _Zulu Queen_.

The _Zulu Queen_ measured one hundred and ten feet over all, and since she was of unusual beam, her draught was light.

In a beam sea the _Zulu Queen_ would all but roll her stacks overboard; in a head sea she pounded until one feared for her safety; in smooth water, full steam ahead, she could snap off seventeen knots.