Coming around a jutting promontory of rock was a queer old man, clad in fisherman's garb, with a huge straw hat on his head. He had not seen them as yet. He was singing, in a high-pitched voice, and even at that distance they could make out the words:
"I'm Captain Royal, of the King's Navee,
And I want two lumps of sugar in my tea."
CHAPTER XV
The Old Sailor
Having concluded this verse, the strange old man elevated one arm above his head and danced a couple of steps of a sailor's hornpipe. In the middle of this he caught sight of the boys, and came to an abrupt stop.
"Ahoy!" he shouted.
"Ahoy!" cried Chet promptly.
The man in the straw hat advanced.
"When did you come ashore?"