Dick Leonard was the captain of a small ship, the ‘London Flower’. Sometimes it took engines from one port to another, sometimes it took furniture, and sometimes it took other things. But sometimes there was no work for it, and the ship was empty. Then Captain Leonard was not happy, because he loved being busy, and he loved going from one port to another all the time.
But the other men on the ship were lazy. They did not like work much. They liked sitting and doing nothing.
One day Captain Leonard did not see two of them for a long time. He looked for them. He opened a door and shouted down some stairs, ‘Who’s there?»
‘William, Captain,’ was the answer.
‘What are you doing there, William?’ the captain asked.
‘Nothing, Captain,’ William answered.
‘Is Tom there?’ the captain shouted then.
‘Yes, he is,’ was the answer.
‘What’s he doing?’ the captain asked.
‘He’s helping me, Captain,’ William answered.
