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102 "Bigger by and by!" he repeated scornfully. "If we wait till then"————

Willie was silent.

"And if we run away while we are little, we have ever so much more chance of being taken as cabin-boys; they don't want big cabin-boys."

"Oh!" said Willie. There was one thing that Roy had not thought of in this cabin-boy scheme; he had better point it out before they went further with it. Only one boy was wanted at a time on a boat, surely.

"Don't you think we had better be something else, Roy?" he said; "because, if we were cabin-boys,—why, we'd be separated, don't you see?"

Roy's face fell. He had certainly forgotten that. To be separated was not to be thought of for an instant. Willie thereupon suggested that they wait a year, and after that, try for a place together on a "man-of-war" as cook and steward; or,