Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 314
bucket to its place. He knew the special bugle-call for thefirst cutter as well as its crew. If any otherboat was called away he showed not theslightest interest; but let the bugler playthe first bar of The Girl I Left BehindMe, and Rover was up instantly, bound-ing toward the gangway. Here he knew… … LIMBER JIM AND HIS MATE. But if the officer said, All right, Rover, hesaluted in just the same way, and then in twojumps was in the bow of the boat, standing aserect and still as any figurehead. The crew wanted a really intelligent monkey,and thought many times they had secured one;but after giving…
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