"[...]music. A pretty figure I should cut, strumming away on that, upon the dirty deck of a Down East schooner! I can't have the face to ask any friend to accompany me. O ho! it's a desperate case!" All at once, as if a sudden idea had struck him, while pacing the room impatiently, he turned to me: -"What say you, Pidgie, to spending the holidays on this fishing excursion?" You may be sure that I was ready enough to accept the proposal, for you know I have always been crazy to go on the water, and like seeing new places above every thing.[...]."