"Oh, tell us about it!" begged Laddie, laying aside his pipe.
"Did your father ever go down like a diver?" asked Russ.
"Yes, once or twice. But now he just helps the other men go down. He's been a sea captain all his life, and once he was shipwrecked."
"What's shipwrecked?" asked Margy.
"It's when your ship hits a rock, or runs on a desert island and sinks," said Sammie. "Then you have to get off if you don't want to be drowned. And once my father was shipwrecked on a desert island that way, and they found a lot of gold."
"They did?" cried Russ.
"Sure! I've heard him tell about it lots of times."
"Oh, is it a story?" asked Rose.
"No, it's real," said Sammie.
"Tell us about it," demanded Laddie.