Good natured Captain Moore spent his watch on deck, chatting away with them and listening to their yarns.

He thoroughly enjoyed their jokes and superstitions with winch many of their quaint stories were intermingled.

While doing so he usually smoked a long clay pipe and being a very forgetful man the moment he laid it out of his hands he never remembered where he had left it.

He was also a very short sighted man and the boys often had a quiet joke on him by shifting the pipe from place to place while he was looking for it.
Once the boatswain, named Smith, who was as mischievous as a monkey, thought he would play a good joke on the captain.

Seeing him lay his pipe on the lattice work aft of the wheel and run down into the cabin to get his glasses, Smith jumped up and threw his pipe overboard and sketched one in chalk in the same place.