'Just hear that, Sam—hurra!'
'Now, Ned, keep quiet; it is not accomplished yet; and things may not work just as Mr. Thomas thinks they will.'
'Oh, but I say, Jim, it will work—I know it will—hurra! Only to think of it—a large sloop in two years—hurra! Why don't you hurra, Sam? You will be captain of her—you know you will.'
'I could hurra, Ned, if it would do any good, for I feel as glad as you do; but it is not always best to make a noise about it.'
Sam had not forgotten the alarm he had received from Ned's shouting a few day's back.
'Well, I don't see what you and Jim are made of: where's the use of any thing good, if a body can't let it out a little?'
Jim soon got Ned back to real business, by asking him to read over the bill of goods, and call off the articles, while he and Sam examined them, and placed them away in readiness for use.
We must now leave our boys, for a time, to try their new experiment, in order that we may bring forward the other parts of our story.