"Anywhere else?"
"Perhaps so. We may go to the Indies or Sandwich Islands before we return."
"A long voyage,—you will need to be fitted out before you start,—don't you want something in my line? I sha'n't want much profit out of an old friend like you."
This, by the way, was what Moses said to pretty much all his customers.
"I shall want a few things. I will pick them out now."
"This way, then."
Randall followed the proprietor to the back of the store, where he selected a variety of articles, which he ordered sent on board the Bouncing Betsey immediately.
"Now," said the mate, after his own purchases were completed, "I shall require a small outfit for a boy who is going out with us."
"If you had brought him with you we could have furnished him at short order."