It jus' called him Cap'n Kidd," replied Trot.
"She's right, ol' man," added Cap'n Bill.
"Books," said the Sea Serpent, "are good enough as far as they go, but it seems to me your earth books don't go far enough.

Captain Kid Glove was a gentleman pirate, a kid-glove pirate.

To leave off the glove and call him just Kidd is very disrespectful." "Oh! You told me to remind you of that third pain," said the little girl.
"Which proves my friendship for you," returned the Sea Serpent, blinking his blue eyes thoughtfully.

"No one likes to be reminded of a pain, and that third pain was--was--" "What was it ?" asked Trot.
"It was a stomach ache," replied the King with a sigh.
"What made it ?" she inquired.
"Just my carelessness," said Anko.

"I'd been away to foreign parts, seeing how the earth people were getting along.