His chum hurried up to him and Inquired: "Did he hurt you very much ?" "Who ?" "Your father." "My father?
What do you mean ?" "Didn't he give you a good walloping for that joke ?" "No.

Not a bit of it.

I'm going on a sea voyage with Captain Spark." "Honest ?" "Cross my heart," and Bob went through a rapid motion with his hands somewhere over the region of his stomach.
"Where to ?" "Around Cape Horn." "No jokin' ?" "Of course not.

But that's nothing.

Captain Spark has been all over the world." Bob spoke as though doubling the Horn was the easiest thing a mariner meets with.
"I wonder if he doesn't want another boy," mused Ted wistfully.
"Don't believe so." "Wish he did.