"Where to?"

"Around Cape Horn."

"No jokin'?"

"Of course not. But that's nothing. Captain Spark has been all
over the world."

Bob spoke as though doubling the Horn was the easiest thing a
mariner meets with.

"I wonder if he doesn't want another boy," mused Ted wistfully.

"Don't believe so."

"Wish he did. We could have jolly times together."

"I'm going out to learn how to sail a ship, not to have fun,"
replied Bob, with an air of lofty virtue. He had said nothing about
this voyage being a sort of discipline as punishment for his prank.
He did not think that necessary.

"When are you goin'?"

"Next week." And then the two boys fell to discussing the trip in
all its aspects. Soon other boys joined Bob and Ted, but the
perpetrator of the glue-joke was the center of attraction.

In fact, Bob was regarded as a sort of village hero. There was more