"I want to show you a drawin' of my plow, Mr. Hunter," he said.
"I should like to see it, Mr. Tarbox, but I am no judge of such things."
Mr. Tarbox drew a paper from his coat-pocket containing a sketch of his invention. He entered into a voluble explanation of it, to which Frank listened good-naturedly, though without much comprehension.
"Do you think it'll work?" asked the inventor.
"I should think it might. Mr. Tarbox, but then I don't know much about such things."
"I don't believe they've got anything in Europe that'll come up to it," said Mr. Tarbox, complacently. "Ef I can get it introduced into England and France, it'll pay me handsome."
"Have you shown it to any Englishman yet?"
"No, I haven't. I don't know any."
"There are some on board this steamer."
"Are there? Where?"