must go in and finish my toilet."

We got up and climbed slowly back to the house.

"And then," I said, "then for the heavy meal."






II.--BECALMED





"Well," said Dahlia, giving up the tiller with a sigh, "if this is
all that you and Joe can do in the way of a breeze, you needn't have
worried."

"Don't blame the crew," said Archie nobly, "he did his best. He sat
up all night whistling."

"ARE we moving?" asked Myra, from a horizontal position on the shady
side of the mainsail.

"We are not," I said, from a similar position on the sunny side.
"Let's get out."