"You is spinnin' a wonderful lot o' big yarns for a wee lad like you," says Skipper Harry. "Aw, now, an I was you," says he, in kindness, "I wouldn't carry on so careless."
"I knows other yarns."
"You s'prise me!"
"I could startle you more."
"Where'd you learn all them yarns?"
"I been told 'em."
"Your pa tell you?"
The lad laughed. "Dear man, no!" says he. "I never seed my pa in all my life."
"Never seed your pa in all your life! Well, now!"
"Why, no, sir! Didn't you know that?"