He was mate aboard the schooner when Uncle Abner died on a v'yage from Charleston home.

This Cobb man is a tight-fisted old bachelor, they say, but his milk of human kindness may not be all skimmed.

And, anyhow, he does take mortgages; that's the heft of his business--I got that from the cap'n without tellin' him what I wanted to know for." Miss Howes smiled.
"You and Captain Bangs have been putting your heads together, I see," she said.
"Um--hm.

And his head ain't all mush and seeds like a pumpkin, if I'm any judge.

The cap'n tells me that east Wellmouth needs a good summer boardin'-house.