"Well, wouldn't this knock you stiff? Say, Kinky, this here's the Sprite."

"Go on!"

"There's the name, plain enough."

"Then it's another Sprite. It's a common name, and the 'Frisco Sprite couldn't be here."

"It's the same boat, you take it from me. It looks the same, and by thunder it is the same."

"I don't see how it got here."

"Nor I—but here she is, for all that. Let's burn her!"

"What for?"

"If it hadn't been for this boat we'd have been on the way to the Sandwich Islands by now. I'll feel a heap better if we burn the blame thing."

"Aw, be sensible, can't you. If——"