And, once, Sir Archibald Armstrong turned to his son. "Well, my boy," he said, slowly, "I've been wanting to ask you a question. What do you think of your shipmates?"
"I think they're heroes, every one!" Archie answered.
"Do you think you now know the difference between a man and a tailor's lay-figure?"
"Oh, sir," Archie laughed, "I'll never forget _that_!"
[8] It is related by the survivors of the steamship _Greenland_ disaster, of some years ago, in which sixty lives were lost, that one man was in this way carried half a mile over the ice. When he was found, he had gone mad.
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