Perhaps we were pretty big boys Jack and I. In fact Im afraid we were sobig that we havent grown much since. But Ollie was a boy anyhow he couldnthave been mor... » 

Perhaps we were pretty big boys Jack and I. In fact Im afraid we were sobig that we havent grown much since. But Ollie was a boy anyhow he couldnthave been more than a dozen years old and we looked upon him as being a verysmall boy indeed though when folks saw us starting off some of them seemed tothink that we were as boyish as he because they said it was such a foolishthing to do and in some way Im sure I dont know how boys have got thereputation of always doing foolish things. Theyre three of a kind saidGrandpa Oldberry as he watched us weigh anchor their parents oughter be sentfer. Well its hard to decide where to begin this true history. We didntkeep any log on this voyage of the Rattletrap. But Ill certainly have to goback of the time when Grandpa Oldberry expressed his opinion and perhaps Iought to explain how we happened to be in that particular port. «