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could get upon his legs that Trot had to laugh outright at his antics. "This hick'ry
leg," said Cap'n Joe, "is so blamed light that it always wants to float. Agga-Groo,
the goldworker, has promised me a gold leg that will stay down, but he never has
time to make it. You're mighty lucky, Bill, to have a merman's tail instead o' legs."
"I guess I am, Joe," replied Cap'n Bill, "for in such a wet country the fishes have
the best of it. But I ain't sure I'd like this sort o' thing always."
"Think o' the money you'd make in a side show," said Cap'n Joe with his funny
chuckling laugh. Then he pounded his wooden leg against the hard floor and
managed to hobble from the room without more accidents.
When he had gone, Trot said, "Aren't you glad to find your brother again, Cap'n
Bill?"
"
Why, so-so," replied the sailor. "I don't know much about Joe, seein' as we
haven't met before for many a long year, an' all I remember about our boyhood
days is that we fit an' pulled hair most o' the time. But what worries me most is
Joe's lookin' so much like me myself, wooden leg an' all. Don't you think it's
rather cheeky an' unbrotherly, Trot?"
"
Perhaps he can't help it," suggested the child. "And anyhow, he'll never be able to
live on land again."
"No," said Cap'n Bill with a sigh. "Joe's a fish, now, an' so he ain't likely to be took
for me by one of our friends on the earth."
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