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"I a to leave it all to you, father I'ht" She served the food as mistress at the board

"It seee, meekly and

wistfully

"I will stay with you, father, if it willof the sort It ain't no place aboard here

for a girl"

Through the open port they heard the frequent clanging of the

stea screws as

she eased herself into an anchorage She was very near them--so near

that they could hear the chatter of the voices of gay folk

"What boat is that, father?"

"Another frosted-caker! I can't re like that I forget fancy names pretty

quick," Otie informed her

"Well, it ain't much use to load your e, poising a potato on his fork-tines and

peeling it, his elbows on the table "That yacht and the kind of folks

that's aboard that yacht ain't of any account to folks like us"

The memory of some remarks which are uttered with peculiar fervor

re after--Captain Candage

remembered that remark and informed hihty poor prophet