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Updated: June 23, 2025
"Our father me an' Am'zon's was Cap'n Joshua Silt of the schooner Bravo. Hi-mighty trim and taut craft she was, from all accounts. I I warn't born when he died," added Cap'n Abe, hesitatingly. "You were a posthumous child!" said Louise. "Er I guess so. Kinder 'pindlin', too. Yes! yes! Cap'n Am'zon's ahead o' me in ev'ry way. When father died 'twas pretty average hard on mother," Cap'n Abe pursued.
An' I've seen the time myself when I was hi-mighty glad I'd l'arned to count stitches. "Land sakes! Some o' them whalin' v'y'ges lasted three-four years. Cap'n Am'zon was in the old bark Neptune's Daughter when she was caught in the ice and drifted pretty average close't to the south pole. "You know," said Cap'n Abe reflectively, "the Antarctic regions ain't like the Arctic. 'Cause why?
Land sakes! ain't Cap'n Am'zon just as much her uncle as I be? Some o' you fellers better stow your jaw-tackle if Cap'n Am'zon does heave to here. For he ain't no tame cat, like I told you." "You back again, Lawford Tapp? Hi-mighty! what you forgot this time? Fishhooks? Goin' fishin', be you? Wal, in my 'pinion you're throwin' your hook into unproductive waters around here, as ye might say.
What's all this 'bout your jumpin' overboard t'other day and savin' him from drownin'?" and the mariner fairly beamed upon her. "Oh, uncle, you mustn't believe everything you hear!" "No? But Bet Gallup says 'tis so. You air a hi-mighty plucky girl, I guess. I allus have thought so and so did Abe.
And how's old Jerry been to-day?" Louise heard him say. Then: "Hi-mighty! What's this?" Louise glanced in from the kitchen. She saw him standing before the cage, his chin sunk on his breast, the tears trickling down his mahogany face. That hard, stern visage, with its sweeping piratical mustache and the red bandana above it, was a most amazing picture of grief. "Oh!
Good comes out o' bad sometimes. Bitter from the sweet as well. And when a man's got a repertation to maintain There was that feller Hanks, on the Lunette, out o' Nantucket. I've heard Cap'n Am'zon tell it " "Cap'n Abe!" gasped Louise. "Hi-mighty! There I go again," said the storekeeper mournfully. "You can't teach an old dog new tricks nor break him of them he's l'arned!"
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