"What are you going to do aboard ?" "To clean out the yacht ready for another trip, Master Bob.

The Cap'en told me to get her done afore he come back." "That's jolly!" exclaimed Bob, brightening up at the prospect of some sort or any sort of expedition in lieu of the one he had missed.

"May I come with you ?" "Ees, sure-ly, Master Bob," returned Dick.

"But how comes it you bain't a-gone wi' the Cap'en and t'others ?" Bob did not like any allusion to this delicate subject.
"I was too late," he said abruptly, changing the conversation at once.
"How are you going off to the cutter, I see she has got the dinghy towing behind, eh ?" "P'r'aps I'm a-going to swim out to her," replied Dick, with a grin.
"What say you to that, Master Bob, hey ?" "If you do, I will too," retorted Bob; "although I've had my dip already, and very lonesome it was.

Why didn't you come down this morning ?" "I sang out to you jist now, sir, as how I had to take a letter for the Cap'en, who told me as he didn't think you'd have time to bathe afore starting for the steamer." "I thought I had--and missed it!" said Bob ruefully.