Once, when he was aboard a little sailing-vessel, he was playing cricket on the deck, and the last ball went over the side.
He dived after it at once, telling the helmsman to "tack back." When the helmsman saw Grenfell struggling in the water, he got so rattled that it was a long time before he could bring the boat near him.
At last Grenfell managed to catch hold of the end of a rope that was thrown to him and climb aboard.
But the cricket ball was in his hand!
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WESTWARD HO! FOR LABRADOR
"In eighteen hundred and ninety-two
Grenfell sailed the ocean blue——"