lieutenant gave a very short answer to the carpenter, who then went down
below."

"Who was the lieutenant on deck?" inquired Anderson.

"I don't recollect his right name--he was, I think, the third
lieutenant--he went by the name of 'Jib and Foresail Jack,' for,
whenever he had the watch, he did nothing but up jip and down jib, up
foresail, down foresail, every five minutes, always worrying the men for
nothing. He was not considered as a good officer, but a very troublesome
one. He had a knack of twisting and moving his fingers about as he
walked the deck, and the men were wont to say that 'he must have been a
forty piany teacher.'"

"And where were the captain and first lieutenant?" said Anderson.

"The first lieutenant was at the time busy in the wing, I believe; and
as for the captain, I don't know where he was--but, you know, a captain
seldom interferes in harbor."

"Where was the admiral?" inquired Ben.

"The admiral was in his cabin. I saw the barber, who had been in to
shave him, come out just before she went down."

"What sort of a man was the admiral?" said Anderson.

"He was a thin tall man, upward of seventy years of age, and he stooped
a good deal in his walk."