Bob had never looked at it in just that light, and he was pretty well ashamed of himself when he was allowed to go home, with an admonition that he must mend his ways or be liable to expulsion.
"I'll bet he's been up to some mischief, Lucy," said Captain Spark when Bob came home quite late that afternoon.
"Perhaps he has.

I hope it was nothing serious." "Shall I ask him what it was ?" "No, we'll find it out sooner or later, and I don't want his father to worry more than he has to.

He has hard work at the mill, and I like his evenings to be as free from care as possible." "That's just like a woman," growled the mariner to himself.

"They take more than their share of the burdens that the men and boys ought to bear.

But never mind.