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Uz he dead?" "No, but he was after askun' your father, when he sailed last time for Voloparaiso, uf ye'd been there afore. An' when your father says no, then Jummy says, 'An' how wull he be knowun a' tull find hus way? An' with thot your father says: 'Verry sumple ut uz, Jummy. Supposun' you was goin' tull the mainland tull a mon who luved un Belfast.
He asks every shup he meets upon the sea tull ot last he meets wuth a shup thot's been tull Voloparaiso, an' the captun o' thot shup tells hum the way. An' Jummy scratches hus head an' says he understands an' thot ut's a very sumple motter after all." The skipper chuckled at the joke, and his tired blue eyes were merry for the moment.
Twice un thirty hours he'd a-hod her ashore uf ut hod no been for me." Captain MacElrath fell to gazing at the sleeping child with mild wonder in his small blue eyes, and his wife sought to divert him from his woes. "Ye remember Jummy MacCaul?" she asked. "Ye went tull school wuth hus two boys. Old Jummy MacCaul thot hoz the farm beyond Doctor Haythorn's place." "Oh, aye, an' what o' hum?
Belfast uz a bug sutty, Jummy, an' how would ye be findun' your way? 'By way o' me tongue, says Jummy; 'I'd be askun' the folk I met. 'I told ye ut was sumple, says your father. 'Ut's the very same way my Donald finds the road tull Voloparaiso.