Who are his parents?
What about them ?" "I hear his father was drowned in bed," murmured Tad Horner.
"By Jawve!" exclaimed Willis Paulding.

"How could that happen ?" "There was a hole in the mattress, and he fell through into the spring," gravely assured Tad.
Willis nearly lost his breath.
"That's all wrong," said Browning.

"It's true Merriwell is no lubber.
Why should he be?
His father was a skipper." "What! A sea captain ?" asked Hartwick.
"No, a bank cashier.

He skipped to Canada." "Wow!" whooped Tad Horner.

"How that hurt! Don't do it again!" "You fellows have things twisted," asserted Parker, with apparent seriousness.