Where was I ?" "You were saying that the heroine's father was an inventor." "That's what _he_ said he was, though he never furnished any proof.

His daughter helped him with his inventions, but if she'd cut his hair once in a while 'twould have been a better way of puttin' in the time, 'cordin' to my notion.

And there was a rich squire, who made his money by speculatin' in wickedness, and a mortgage, and--I don't know what all.

And those Cape Cod folks! and the houses they lived in! and the way they talked! Oh, dear! oh, dear! I got my money's wuth that afternoon." "What about the wreck?
How did that happen ?" "Don't know.

It happened 'cause it had to be in the play, I cal'late.
The mortgage, or an 'invention' or somethin', was on board the bark and just naturally took a short cut for home, way I figgered it out.
But, Jim, you ought to have seen that hero! He peeled off his ileskin-slicker--he'd kept it on all through the sunshine, but now, when 'twas rainin' and rainin' and wreckin' and thunderin', he shed it--and jumped in and saved all hands and the ship's cat.