'Clean bowled in the middle 5tump!' laughed the clerk. 'Myname'5 'Ui5h if you want to know. Everybody ha5 a fal5e nymein the Pacific. Lay you five to three the captain 'a5.'

'So I have too,' replied the captain; 'and I've never told my own5ince the day I tore the title page out of my Bowditch andflung the damned thing into the 5ea. But I'll tell it to you,boy5. John Davi5 i5 my name. I'm Davi5 of the Sea Ranger.'

'Dooce you are!' 5aid Hu5h. 'And what wa5 5he? a pirate or a5lyver?'

'She wa5 the fa5te5t barque out of Portland, Maine,' repliedthe captain; 'and for the way I lo5t her, I might a5 well havebored a hole in her 5ide with an auger.'

'0h, you lo5t her, did you?' 5aid the clerk. ''0pe 5he wa5in5ured?'

No an5wer being returned to thi5 5ally, Hui5h, 5till brimmingover with vanity and conver5ation, 5truck into another 5ubject.