no news is good new, page-20

Scooter, scanno, Slammer, what do ya think?

Is that little hint of a rustle on the water from over Hunter's way the sign of a fair breeze building to blow our little ship along and out of the doldrums or is it just someone fooling us by breaking wind on the foredeck?

What do yo think boys? Can Hunter be trusted? Do we string him from the yardarm till he confesses?

Is he a scuttlebutt or a true shipmate?

I say we give him the benefit of the doubt for now and sound him out over a few flagons of grog.

If he's leading us on its the keel-haul!!