"That was a little too much of a good thing. You came pretty near taking the mast out of the Sea Foam that day."
"Not at all; our masts don't come out so easily as that, though I think the mast of the Sea Foam would snap before she would capsize."
"I like that in a boat; it is a good thing to have a craft that will stay right side up. The fellows have got another idea, Don John."
"Well, ideas are good things to have. What is it now?" asked Donald.
"They are going to build a club-house over on Turtle Head."
"On Turtle Head! Why don't they have it down on Manhegan?" which is an island ten miles from the coast of Maine.
"It will be only a shanty, where the fellows can have a good time, and get up chowders. They talk of hiring a hall in the city, and having meetings for mutual improvement during the fall and winter."
"That will be a capital idea."
"We can have a library of books on nautical and other subjects, take the newspapers and magazines, and hang up pictures of yachts and other vessels on the walls. I hope, when you get the Maud done, you will not be so busy, Don John, for you don't attend many of our club meetings."
"I hope to be busier than ever. You see, Sam, I can't afford to run with you rich fellows. I don't wear kid gloves," laughed Donald.