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"What's the goodorth, Fred?"

"About fivepence net," said the gloomy Fred "I can sell all these,

but it is the Fairy Mary and the Fairy Tilda that's breaking my

heart And yet, Joe, there ain't two ships of their tonnage to be

bought on the ht, you couldn't buy 'euess

they uessed that

"I offered 'em to Saddler, of the White Anchor," Fred went on, "and he

said that if he ever started collecting curios he'd reo Line--the very ships for the

Newcastle and Thames river trade--and he said he couldn't think of it

now that the sub, who thinks of running a line to the West Coast, but he said

that he didn't believe in Fairies or Santa Claus or any of that stuff"

There was silence

"Who named 'em Fairy Mary and Fairy Tilda?" asked Joe curiously

"Don't let's speak ill of the dead," begged Fred; "the er with us, Joe They say that joy doesn't kill, but

that's a lie, Joe He died two days after we took 'em over, and left

all his money--all ourup

"I didn't know it myself till the other day, when I took the deed of