Joe still felt ashamed for the trouble he had caused; but 'Frisco Kid quickly put him at ease.
"Oh, that 's nothing," he said.

"Everybody does that when they 're beginning.

Now some men forget all about the trouble they had in learning, and get mad when a greeny makes a mistake.

I never do.

Why, I remember--" And then he told Joe of many of the mishaps which fell to him when, as a little lad, he first went on the water, and of some of the severe punishments for the same which were measured out to him.