But how came you here ?" "Why, you see, I was bound to go with you anyhow or at least to keep within hail of you.

You told me, you know, that you were going in the steamboat; and after I left the shop, what should I see but a big picture of a steamboat on a wall.

It said.

'Bath, Gardiner, and Hallowell,' on the bill; and I knew that was where you meant to go.

So this afternoon I hunts round and finds the steamboat.