Tommy Twisters Discovery 267

Cunard Line. Tommy got on the roof of
the ark and made signals of distress ; and the
liner (which was trying to make the fastest
passage on record) changed her course, and
hove to alongside them. When the captain
learned that Tommy had brought him out
of his course because he wanted buns, he was
very angry at first; but he calmed down,
and said he had a large paper bag full
of buns which he was taking over to his
aged mother at New York. She had been
ordered buns by her doctor; but the captain
gave Tommy half the bagful; and Tommy
thanked him politely and set sail again—
that is, he didn’t set sail, having no sails to
set; for he had heard that Doctor Nansen
intended to drift across the North Pole by
the aid of the ocean currents; and Tommy
had decided that it would save trouble if Ae
drifted all the way there and back too—thus
proving that he had thought the thing out
more thoroughly than Doctor Nansen.

Well, they drifted and drifted.

“T say!” cried Tommy, sitting down
again bang on the deck, ‘we've forgotten