Captains Courageous, Rudyard Kipling [uplifting novels txt] 📗

The chief engineer entered for a moment, red, smiling, and wet."Say, Mac," cried Harvey cheerfully, "how are we hitting it?"

"Vara much in the ordinary way," was the grave reply. "The youngare as polite as ever to their elders, an' their elders are e'entryin' to appreciate it."

A low chuckle came from a corner. The German opened hiscigar-case and handed a skinny black cigar to Harvey.

"Dot is der broper apparatus to smoke, my young friendt," he said."You vill dry it? Yes? Den you vill be efer so happy."

Harvey lit the unlovely thing with a flourish: he felt that he wasgetting on in grownup society.

"It would take more 'n this to keel me over," he said, ignorant thathe was lighting that terrible article, a Wheeling 'stogie'.

"Dot we shall bresently see," said the German. "Where are wenow, Mr. Mactonal'?"

"Just there or thereabouts, Mr. Schaefer," said the eng