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Rh "Seasick!" snorted the would-be poet. "Who ever heard of seasickness in a poem? The next line is this:

"That's the first verse. The second begins"

"Save it, Songbird, until we're on the yacht," interrupted Sam. "We'll have more time to listen then."

"All right," answered the would-be poet cheerfully. "I want to fix up some of the lines any how. I've got 'harm' to rhyme with 'storm' and it doesn't quite suit me."

"Never mind—a storm often does great harm," said Dick. "You can easily fix it up by throwing out both words, you know."

After that the talk drifted around to the matter of the treasure hunt and Songbird was given some of the details, in which he became much interested. He declared that he thought the trip on the steam yacht would be even more inter esting than the one on the houseboat had been.

"We're after something definite this trip," he said. "We've got something to look forward