“It’s certainly very ungrateful on their part,” grinned Bill.
“The shark who hides and runs away
May live to bite another day.”
Teddy was the perpetrator of the lines.
Fred groaned and, as he made a pass at his brother with his unoccupied hand, asked: “What have we done that such awful stuff should be pulled off on us?”
“Hi, there!” shouted Bill suddenly. “I saw something just then.”
“Hang out the flags,” drawled Fred unbelievingly. “Bill saw something.”
“He saw the sea, he saw the sky,
He saw the drifting clouds go by,”
chanted Teddy, the irrepressible.
“I’d see a couple of boobs, if I looked over your way,” retorted Bill. “Cut out the chatter and hand me those glasses.”
The binoculars were passed over to him, and he turned them on an object far out to starboard.