160 TWO WAYS TO GO TO SEA:

“As the captain was walking away, Mr.
John took two half-dollars out of his pocket,
and handed them to Jack, and asked him to
divide them among the oarsmen who had
rowed them ashore so handsomely.

“<¢ Thank you, sir,’ said Jack, taking them.
But instead of turning round at once to his
boat, he looked as if he wanted to say some-
thing, and Mr. John stopped a moment,
thinking that perhaps the sailor thought it
was not enough.

“In a moment, Jack said, ‘I believe [have
seen you before, sir, though I suppose you do
not remember me.’

«¢No,’ said Mr. John, looking him in the
face, ‘I don’t remember you.’

“¢Don’t you recollect your old playmate
Jack, who went to sea from Cape Cod in the
Almira?’

“¢Why, Jack, is it possible —is this you?’
and Mr. John recognized at length, in his
sunburnt and weather-beaten face, the fea-
tures of his old school-fellow. He shook
hands with him heartily, and talked a min-
ute or two, and then Mr. John called back
the captain.

“¢Captain,’ said he, ‘I have found that