[A Jolly Fellowship by Frank R. Stockton]@TWC D-Link book
A Jolly Fellowship

CHAPTER XX
17/23

While Rectus and I were dressing, for he got up at the same time that I did, our captain came to us, and brought me a little package of greenbacks.
"The master of the bark gave me these," said the captain, "and said they were pinned in your watch-pocket.

He has had them dried and pressed out for you." There it was, all the money belonging to Rectus and myself, which, according to old Mr.Colbert's advice, I had carefully pinned in the watch-pocket of my trousers before leaving Nassau.

I asked the captain if we should not pay something for our accommodations on this vessel, but he said we must not mention anything of the kind.

The people on the ship would not listen to it.

Even our watches seemed to have suffered no damage from the soaking they had had in our wet clothes.
As soon as we were ready, we went up on deck, and there we saw Corny.
She was sitting by herself near the stern, and looked like a different kind of a girl from what she had been two or three days before.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books