"I shall be carried off into the depths of the ocean, and you, Mr Kilby, will have to be answerable to my disconsolate father," he sang out, half laughing and half crying.  "Good-bye, Harry; a pleasant voyage to you round the world.  May you not be spirited away by a sea-monster like this.  Oh! oh! help me off, though!--he'll have me into the sea to a certainty, and then he'll turn round and gobble me up--he will.  I know he will."