"Didn't he give you a good walloping for that joke?"
"No. Not a bit of it. I'm going on a sea voyage with Captain
Spark."
"Honest?"
"Cross my heart," and Bob went through a rapid motion with his hands somewhere over the region of his stomach.
"Where to?"
"Around Cape Horn."
"No jokin'?"
"Of course not. But that's nothing. Captain Spark has been all over the world."
Bob spoke as though doubling the Horn was the easiest thing a mariner meets with.
"I wonder if he doesn't want another boy," mused Ted wistfully.