"Good-bye, schipper!" shouted the boys, seizing their skates and leaping from the deck one by one, "many thanks to you!"
"Good-bye! good-b——Hold! here! stop! I want my coat."
Ben was carefully assisting his cousin over the side of the boat.
"What is the man shouting about? Oh, I know, you have his wrapper round your shoulders!"
"Dat ish true," answered Jacob, half jumping, half tumbling down upon the framework, "dat ish vot make him sho heavy."
"Made you so heavy, you mean, Poot?"
"Ya, made you sho heavy—dat ish true," said Jacob innocently, as he worked himself free from the big wrapper; "dere, now you hands it mit him straits way and tells him I voz much tanks for dat."
"Ho! for an inn!" cried Peter, as they stepped into the city. "Be brisk, my fine fellows!"
FOOTNOTES:
[23] Skipper. Master of a small trading vessel,—a pleasure-boat or ice-boat.