"That's your first shark, Mark, eh ?" "Yes," said Mark, thoughtfully, "I shall know what a shark is now." "I think we'll give them a turn now, Gregory," said the captain.

"No, no, one at a time," he cried angrily, as the men sprang up together.
"We must not capsize the boat here.

Now you, my man," he continued, sitting fast, as the sailor stepped across and took the mate's place before Mr Gregory rose.

"Now you, Widgeon." Billy crept very softly into the captain's place, and the latter seated himself on the thwart in front of Mark, to be joined directly by Gregory.
"There," cried Mark, as the oars dipped, "I heard it.

There." "What ?" said his father.
"That roaring which Mr Gregory heard." "It was the creaking and groaning of the oars in the tholes." "No, no, father.