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Updated: June 1, 2025
"Please read 'bout Jesus walking on the water, grandma," pleaded Neddie. "Yes," she said. "Here in this chapter Mark tells about Jesus feeding the multitude five thousand men with five loaves and two fishes; making so much of that small quantity of food that they all ate and were filled, and there were twelve baskets full of fragments left.
"Yes, daughter, for he has said so, and his promises never fail." "I want to go to mamma now," said Neddie, getting down from his father's knee. "Yes, run along," said the captain. "Our lesson has been long enough for to-day, I think, daughters, and you are all at liberty to go.
He roared them after us until we had left him far astern; and at the last we heard him laughing long and hoarsely. "What dat yeh man think we all am? He think we all gwine believe dat yeh? Hgh!" the cook growled. But Neddie Benson dolefully shook his head.
I heard Blodgett's cat-yowl of glee, Davie Paine's deep guffaw, Neddie Benson's shrill cackle of delight. But when, to clear my eyes, I wiped away my tears, the men in the other boat were glaring at us in glum and angry silence. "Ah, it's funny is it?" said Falk, and his voice me think of the times when he had abused Bill Hayden. "Laugh, curse you, laugh! Well, that's all right.
We all looked at Blodgett with an anxiety that it would have been kinder, perhaps, to hide, and Blodgett himself seemed uneasy lest he should be poisoned by the berries he had eaten. But no harm came of them, and by the time the stars were shining again Neddie appeared to be over the worst of his sickness and with the help of the rest of us managed to stagger along.
If we're to die, we're to die anyhow, and there's a bare chance they'll feed us before they butcher us." "Ay," said Davie. "Me, too!" And Neddie made out to nod. The cook, watching the face of each man in turn, began to blubber; and when I, the youngest and last, cast my vote with the rest, he literally rolled on the ground and bellowed. "Get up!" Roger snapped out at him.
Kipping was reminded of yarns about Malay pirates, which he told so quietly, so mildly, that they seemed by contrast thrice as terrible. Neddie Benson lugubriously recalled the prophecy of the charming fortune-teller and argued the worst of our mysterious stranger. "The lady said," he repeated, "that there'd be a dark man and a light man and no end o' trouble. She was a nice lady, too."
"Of course papa does," said Neddie; "if he didn't he wouldn't give us money to spend, and ever so many other nice things; or take us to the city for such a good time as we have had to-day." "Yes, our dear papa is very good to us all," said Grace.
We were alarmed, and for a time could think of no explanation; but after a while black Frank looked up from where he crouched by the luckless Neddie and fiercely muttered: "What foh he done eat dem leaves? Hey? Tell me dat!" It was true that Neddie alone had eaten the leaves. A heavy price he was paying for it!
"That, children," he said, "is the way people used to travel years ago when I was a little fellow, such as you are now, Neddie boy; and this" going to the other side of the arch and pointing to the contrasting relief "shows how we travel now. See, it is a section of a palace-car; some of the people reading, others gazing from its plate-glass windows, and a porter serving them with luncheon."
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