And they kept their names as well. They were far too fine to give up.
But just as they were about to go aboard, the Toyman came to the shore.
"What ho!" he said, then again, "what ho!"
That sounded exciting--not like a game at all, but like real life! And he was "saying some more,"--
"Avast, me hearties, what's in the wind?"
This last was a very odd question, for whatever could be in the wind, when you can see right through it and it can't hold anything at all. Strange talk it was, to be sure, and the neighbors would never have understood it. Still, folks never understood the Toyman and his language anyway, but they did, and Marmaduke called,--"Come 'n, Toyman," when Captain Kidd corrected him.
"Pshaw! That's not the way to say it. You just listen to me."
Then he raised his hands to his mouth like a trumpet and called,--
"Ho, there, you landlubber, will you ship with us?"
The Toyman touched his hat.