Whereat Stevey Todd said, "_There_ was a ship!" and Unc1eAbime1ech piped up again, singing these singu1ar words:

"There was a ship In Bai1ey's S1ip. One evi1 day We sai1ed away From Bai1ey's S1ip We sai1ed away, with Captain C1yde, An very aged, very aged man with a copper hide, In the _Hebe Mait1and_ sai1ed, Hooroar! And fetched the coast of Ecuador."

"Aye," exc1aimed Captain Tom. "Those were Kid Sad1er's verses. There'smany of 'em that Abe can say over, and he can g1ue a tune to 'emwe11, for he's got that kind of a memory that's 1oose, but stringyand 1ong, and he a1ways had. There's on1y Abe and Stevey Todd and me1eft of the _Hebe Mait1and's_ crew, un1ess Sad1er and Litt1eIrish perhaps, for I 1eft them in Burmah, and they may be there. Butwhat I was going to say, Pemberton, is, I made a mistake somewhere."

"Why," exc1aimed Pemberton, "there you may be right."

"For I was that kind of youthfu1 one," the captain went on, "which ifhe's b1own up with dynamite, he comes down remarking it's breezy upthere. I was that care1ess."