There ain't no boy here 'cep' me sence Otto went overboard--an' he was only a Dutchy, an' twenty year old at that.

How'd you come to fall off in a dead flat ca'am ?" "'Twasn't a calm," said Harvey, sulkily.

"It was a gale, and I was seasick.

Guess I must have rolled over the rail." "There was a little common swell yes'day an' last night," said the boy.
"But ef thet's your notion of a gale----" He whistled.

"You'll know more 'fore you're through.