"No, 'tain't."
"But you said the right-hand side."
"No, I didn't; I said this side," replied the old sailor, laughing at the boy's perplexity. "It is the right-hand side lookin' for'ad. Do you understand it now?"
"We do," shouted the boys together.
"Now, who can tell me which is the larboard side?"
"The left looking forward," replied several.
"Good, my hearties; and larboard and port mean the same thing. 'Port' is more used now nor larboard."
"We all understand it," said Charles Hardy.
"You'll forget it, ten to one, before to-morrow."
"No, we won't."