gging to dry: the sails, also, which had been
furled, and had been saturated by the wet, were now loosened and spread
out that they might not be mildewed. The wind blew mild and soft, the
sea had gone down, and the ship was running through the water at the
speed of about four miles an hour. Mrs Seagrave, wrapped up in a
cloak, was seated upon one of the arm-chests near the stern of the ship,
her husband and children were all with her enjoying the fine weather,
when Captain Osborn, who had been taking an observation of the sun with
his sextant, came up to them.

"Well, Master Tommy, you are very glad that the gale is over?"

"I didn't care," replied Tommy, "only I spilt all my soup. But Juno
tumbled off her chair, and rolled away with the baby, till papa picked
them both up."

"It was a mercy that poor Albert was not killed," observed Mrs
Seagrave.

"And so he might have been, if Juno had not thought only of him and
nothing at all about herself," replied Mr Seagrave.

"That's very true, sir," replied Captain Osborn. "She saved the child,
and, I fear, hurt herself."

"I thump my head very hard," said Juno, smiling.

"Yes, and it's lucky that you have a good thick woolly coat over it,"
replied Captain Osborn, laughing.

"It is 12 o'clock by the sun, sir," said Mackintosh, the first mate, to
the captain.

"Then bring me up the latitude, Mr Mackintosh, while I work out the
longitude from the sights which I took this morning. In five minutes,
Mr Seagrave, I shall be ready to prick off over our place on the
chart."

"Here are the dogs come up on deck," said William; "I dare say they are
as glad of the fine weather as we are. Come here, Romulus! Here,
Remus!--Remus!"

"Well, sir," said Ready, who was standing by them with his quadrant in
his hand, "I should like to ask you a question. Those dogs of yours
have two very odd names which I never heard before. Who were Romulus
and Remus?"

"Romulus and Remus," replied Mr Seagrave, "were the names of two
shepherds, brothers, who in ancient days founded the city of Rome, which
eventually became the largest and most celebrated empire in the world.
They were the first kings of Rome, and reigned together. History says
that Remus affronted Romulus by leaping over a wall he had raised, and
Romulus, in his anger, took away his life; but the history of early days
is not to be depended upon."

"No, nor the brothers either, it appears," replied Ready; "however, it