Tell him I forgive him for lickin' him," he says, "and die happy.

Will you promise me that, Cap'n, on your word as a gentleman ?" And I promised him.

And he died in less than ten months afterwards, poor thing.' "'But that was sixteen--eighteen--nineteen years ago,' says I.'And the boy run away three years afore that.

You've been to New York in the past nineteen years, once anyhow.' "'I know it.

But I forgot.