The rest all followed in due course.

Now tell all the men to go down to the shore, and wait a little distance from the two boats till you and I join them.

Tell them all to be hungry.
Your name is Mr.Balker, the mate of the Rattler, the blockade-runner from which we escaped in a whaleboat.

My name is Jerry Sandman, the second mate, for the want of a better.

Tell them not to forget any of these names," continued Christy.
"They heard the whole story, and they were deeply interested in it, for they could not help seeing what was coming," added the engineer, as he went to carry out the order he had just received.
The seamen still kept together in pairs, and Graines instructed them by twos, impressing them with the necessity of remembering the names they had heard in the lieutenant's story, which was a "story" in the double sense of the word.