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`` It takes us Cape Codders , '' remarked Cap'n Ira , `` to study out the shoals and channels of kinship . It 's 'cause we 're such good navigators that we 're able to do it . '' `` And now that we 've got Ida May to harness up Queenie for us and look after the house while we 're gone , and you feel so much spryer yourself , Ira , I do n't see why we ca n't visit our folks a little , '' Prudence said . He agreed , and they set off in high fettle just before noon , expecting to return before dark . Sheila was upstairs dusting when , not long after the noon hour , she saw from one of the windows the spread canvas of the _ Seamew _ -- there was no mistaking the schooner -- making through the channel into the cove . `` Tunis is coming ! Tunis is coming !