"Now my mind is made up.
Captain, I wish you would take him to sea with you at once! I can stand his foolishness no longer!" Bob was out of the room by this time and did not hear his mother's decision.
"Do you mean that, Lucy ?" asked Captain Spark eagerly.
"Yes, I do.

I am determined.

Bob shall go to sea.

Perhaps it will teach him a lesson, and he will mend his ways." "It will be the making of him," declared the captain heartily.

"I'm glad you decided this.