WELL BURIED TREASURE


When Mr. Daddles finished his story there was a moment's silence.
Then Ed Mason asked:

"Is that all?"

"Isn't that enough?" inquired Mr. Daddles, "isn't that sad enough,
just as it is?"

"It's sad enough," said Captain Bannister, "it's sad enough, all
right. Once or twice I thought I'd bust right out cryin'."

And the Captain chuckled a little, choked, and wheezed.

"What beats me," he went on, "is where you picked up a yarn like
that,--for you haint follered the sea very much, I take it?"

"Not very much," said Mr. Daddles.

"Not that yer troubles with that there canoe proves anything,"
returned the skipper, "for foolisher things was never invented. I
wouldn't git into one of 'em not if you was to give me a thousand
dollars. No, sir."

"Oh, my experience of a sailor's life has been limited," said the
new passenger. "To tell the truth, I've never been as far East as
this but once before. I was here for a few days, summer before