Chapter 4: Tomorrow

Answer: When Bessie swiftly asked Harry, ‘Are you Harry Hagberd?’ ‘Can you prove it?’ Harry replied confidently with a yes. He could prove it by sticking a fancy beard on his chin and asked Bessie if he resembled old Hagberd or not? Bessie murmured, ‘It’s true’. After that, Harry discussed every other possible detail with Bessie to prove he was Harry. “His mother nagged at him for being idle, and the old man said he would cut his soul out of his body rather than let him go to sea”. Well, it looked as if he would do it too. These memory-based details told by Harry convinced Bessie that the young man was indeed Harry.

Answer: Harry lived his life to his most packed, and the world was his home. He told Bessie that he had been everything one could think of, almost, but a tailor or soldier. He had been a boundary rider. He had sheared sheep, humped his swag, and harpooned a whale. He had rigged ships, prospected for gold, skinned dead bullocks, and turned his back on more money than the older man would have scraped in his whole life.