CATTY ATKINS, SAILORMAN Books by Established 1817 NEXT I KNEW, SOMEBODY WAS FEELING ALONG THE WALL NEXT I KNEW, SOMEBODY WAS FEELING ALONG THE WALL CATTY ATKINS, SAILORMAN MCMXXII Catty Atkins, Sailorman D-W ILLUSTRATIONS Next I Knew, Somebody Was Feeling Along the Wall When We Got Just Under Her Tail We Could Hear a Murmur of Voices We Cranked Until We Wore the Skin Off Our Hands, and Until Our Backs Were ’Most Busted There Was Excitement for a Minute and Everybody Came Running CATTY ATKINS—SAILORMAN CHAPTER I It seems as if Catty and I have a lot of luck, and this summer we had more than usual, for Mr. Browning, who lived in New York, and was interested in all kinds of businesses, invited us to go for a cruise on his yacht. He was out to our town to see Mr. Atkins on some sort of business, and before we knew it Catty and I were friends with him, and took him fishing, and went around with him—and the day he left he said we were to come for the cruise. We were to start in July, and it was hard for us to wait for the time to come around, but it did come. We were kind of surprised that it
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