"'Hooroar!' yells the Cap'n. 'Full speed ahead, an' we'll see w'ether his Royal Red Coat's canoes'll catch us now.'
"And off went the old Queen o' Spades at twenty knots an hour, and in two days we was in Al Kamakh."
"And well out of it," said Henry.
"I dun'no'," said the Old Sailor; "'cos why, the steam-ship company wanted to make Cap'n Philander Montgomery Boggs pay fur the grub he fed the savidges; an' w'en I left they was a-fightin' over it in the courts yet."
[SONG.]
BY MARIE L. VAN VORST.
Show me the place where the white heather grows,
Kind little fairies in bonnets of blue.
Why don't you tell, when they said that you knew?
Nobody knows!
Show me the place where my little dream goes—
(I wake in the morning the sky is so blue)—
They said that you sent it. I thought that you knew.
Nobody knows!
What have you done with my pretty red rose?
It fell like the down on the thistle I blew.
They said you bewitched it—oh, say, is it true?
Nobody knows!