“A family of ships,” he agreed.
“And on those ships are enough people to populate a town as large as the one where I was raised.”
“Quite a young city,” he agreed.
“But it seems so sad that they should all be carried away from their home towns.”
Sally Stood Looking at the Endless Black Waters
“Some of them got pretty tired of the old home town,” he mused. “But, boy! Won’t they be happy when they get a chance to go back!”
“I hope it may be soon.”
Riggs was a fine fellow. Sally liked him a lot.
“Riggs,” she said, “if I get into trouble, really serious trouble, I’ll come to you first thing.”