Johnnie Kendrick, of all folks in the world!" "The very same, Captain." "And you knew me right off! Well done for you, John! Why, it's all of twenty odd year since you used to set on a nail keg in my boathouse and tease me into singing the Dreadnought chanty.

I remember that.

Good land! I ought to remember the only critter on earth that ever ASKED me to sing.

Ho! ho! but you was a little towheaded shaver then; and now look at you! What are you doin' away down here ?" John Kendrick shook his head.

"I don't know that I'm quite sure myself, Captain," he said.