"Get a little salt horse and sea biscuit down for a foundation, and you can build up on that the finest thing in the way of a meal you ever saw." For the first time since his illness Bob could think of food without a shudder.

He really began to feel hungry.

The old sailor proved a good prophet.

Bob began to mend steadily, and in a few days he was as active as ever--more so, in fact.
"Now's the time to look for trouble," remarked Captain Spark to his mate one day.
"Trouble?
How ?" "Bob is himself again.

He'll be up to some tricks or I'm a Dutchman.