The weather was fair, and their progress was for a time slow.
At length one day there was a cry—
"Land ho!"
"Which?" said our hero, who was anxious for any thing that would make him forget his great sorrow for Thyra.
"I remarked 'Land ho!' Jack," said Mr. Mole, for he it was who first detected it.
"And I observed 'Which?' sir," said Jack.
"And why that unmeaning interrogation?" demanded Mr. Mole.
"Your speech is an anomaly, Mr. Mole," responded Jack, mimicking the voice of his tutor in his happiest manner.
"Why so?"
"You say my question is unmeaning, and yet you ask an explanation of it. If there is no meaning in it, how can I explain it?"