d. The young skipper decided, after a
careful examination of the premises, to store the boxes in these spaces.
To will was to do with him, and he went to work at once.

In a couple of hours he had conveyed the twenty boxes from the boat, and
packed them away in these lumber-holes, and covered them with old traps,
so that even his mother would not suspect their presence in the house.
Having done all this, he sailed the yacht out into the deep water near
the Portland Pier, where he anchored her. Tired out after the long day
and the long night, he stretched himself on one of the transoms, and
went to sleep.

CHAPTER V.

MONKEY.

Little Bobtail slept as soundly on the transom of the yacht as Ezekiel
Taylor did in the cottage; and, as he did not retire till after three in
the morning, he did not turn out till nine. He had worked all day and
nearly all night, and he was very tired. While he was slumbering soundly
in the cabin, many an eye was directed from the shore, and from the
boats and vessels in the harbor, at the trim and janty yacht which had
come in during the night. She was not there the evening before, and she
was there now. Scores of boatmen asked what she was and where she came
from; but no one could answer. No one had seen her before, and all were
confident that she did not belong anywhere in the bay. The gossips
concluded that she was a yacht from Boston or Portland, with a party on
board; and, as she had come in during the night, they supposed her crew
were making up for lost time in the matter of sleep. Those who were out
in boats, though they sailed around the stranger and examined her
carefully, were considerate enough not to go on board of her, and thus
waken the tired sleepers.

So Little Bobtail was permitted to finish his nap in peace. The clock on
the Baptist Church was striking nine when he woke. He leaped upon the
cabin floor with a start when he saw the sunlight streaming in through
the round port-holes in the trunk. He had no toilet to make, for he had
turned in without removing even his shoes; and, putting on his cap, he
was ready for business at once, though he did wash his face and hands,
and comb his hair, when a wash-basin at the forward part of the cabin
suggested these operations to him. He had an opportunity to see the
yacht now by daylight, and his previous impressions of her were more
than confirmed. She was even trimmer and more janty than he had
supposed.

The experience