"To be sure, Mr. Ship's Carpenter."
It was fine to be called that, though Jehosophat wondered how the Toyman knew what he was, when they hadn't told a soul. But then the Toyman knew most everything, all their plans as soon as made.
It didn't take long to mend that ship. Soon the boards were nailed across and the deck was ready for the crew.
"All aboard!" shouted Jehosophat, and then even more loudly,--
"All ashore that's goin' ashore!"
Having said this very splendidly, he turned to his brother.
"I'm Captain Kidd," he told him.
"And what's me?" shouted back Marmaduke excitedly, and excitement is always bad for grammar.
"Oh, you! You're my slave," his brother informed him--in a very grand manner.
This didn't seem to suit Marmaduke, and he tried hard to remember a name Reddy Toms had told him, out of a book of Reddy's, all about pirates and things. But he couldn't think of it at all.