"What are you going to do, eh ?" "Why, to let the water run out of 'em, sir," replied the elder of the two, looking up in his face and touching his forelock with his finger in proper nautical salute.

"Ain't that right, sir ?" "Hullo! that you, Hellyer ?" cried the old gentleman, recollecting him as a former coxswain.

"Glad to see you again.

By Jove, you came just now in the very nick of time to save these youngsters! Excuse me though; but, you've got hold of the same foolish idea a lot of other people have, that turning a poor half-drowned body upside down to empty him, as if he were a rum-cask, is the best way to recover him!" "What should we do, sir ?" asked the man with a grin.

"I allers thought it were the right thing, sir ?" "Why, turn the poor fellows slightly a one side and then rub them smartly to restore the circulation," said the Captain promptly, suiting the action to the word; and, the next instant, he and the men were busily shampooing the boys till their arms ached.