h. Charley was wickedly pleased to
see the long-nosed man stretched limp, and greenish in the face, while
his two companions meanly teased him. And then, as Charley's father
and Mr. Grigsby appeared, Charley began to feel queer, himself.

The ship sank down, down, down--then she rose up, up, up; and which was
the worse sensation he could not tell. Either one was the worse, while
it was happening!

"I--believe--I'll--go to bed," faltered Charley.

"Pshaw! You are looking kinder green," said Mr. Grigsby, surveying him.

"Feel sick, Charley?" queried his father.

Charley's actions spoke louder than words, for suddenly he was at the
rail getting rid of his hard-earned supper. When he tottered back,
already his father was spreading quilt and blanket against the rail
behind which hung the boat.

"I guess you had better turn in," he directed, to Charley. "You'll be
more comfortable on the deck than on the boat. Besides, I suppose that
Jacobs gang wouldn't hesitate to cut the boat and let it drop, if they
had the chance."

Charley crawled upon the bed. He was so miserable that really he
didn't care whether anybody cut the boat down or not.

"Do you think I'll get well again?" he groaned.

His father and Mr. Grigsby laughed as if this were a joke.

"Why, sure," declared the Fremont man. "But I know how you feel. When
I was in California in Forty-six a lot of us Fremont men were sent down
from Monterey to San Diego by boat. Every one of us was laid flat, and
Kit Carson was the sickest of all! He vowed he'd rather cross the
desert a hundred times than take another sea voyage."

Charley did not open his eyes again till morning. When he did open
them he was feeling much better. He sat up, and decided that he was
going to be all right. The ship was still pitching up and down, and
was out of sight of land. The deck was littered with sick people lying
in all postures, and some cattle that had been taken aboard at New
Orleans, for beef, were lowing wretchedly as if they, too, were sick.
No doubt they were.

There was not much difficulty in getting a seat at breakfast this
morning, for some of the passengers who had come down from the North
were ill a second time. When Charley was picking his way to the dining
cabin he stumbled on somebody, and looking down he beheld the
long-nosed man. But the long-nosed man did not even notice that he was
being stepped on. Charley chuckled. Mr. Jacobs in such shape nee