"Put away a barrel of it?" whispered Clancy--"yes. Let's get out of here, Joe. In an hour they'll be going into the air like firecrackers."
XXVIII
IN THE ARKELL KITCHEN
We left Clancy's boarding house and went over to old Mrs. Arkell's place, where most of the skippers who were going to race next day had gathered. Clancy at once started in to mix milk-punches. And he sang his latest favorite, with the gang supping his mixture between the stanzas:
"Oh, hove flat down on Quero Banks Was the Bounding Billow, Captain Hanks, And the way she was a-settlin' was an awful sight to see"--
Then Wesley Marrs sang a song and after him Patsie Oddie followed with a roarer.
The punch-mixing, singing and story-telling went on and in the middle of it Tom O'Donnell came driving in. He was like a whiff
