diff --git a/projects/samskivert/src/java/com/samskivert/jdbc/jora/Cursor.java b/projects/samskivert/src/java/com/samskivert/jdbc/jora/Cursor.java
index b581211a..bfb3f12d 100644
--- a/projects/samskivert/src/java/com/samskivert/jdbc/jora/Cursor.java
+++ b/projects/samskivert/src/java/com/samskivert/jdbc/jora/Cursor.java
@@ -36,9 +36,9 @@ public class Cursor {
     public Object next()
 	throws SQLException
     {  
-        // if we closed everything up after the last call to next(), we'll
-        // have a null table here and should bail immediately
-        if (table == null) {
+        // if we closed everything up after the last call to next(),
+        // nTables will be zero here and we should bail immediately
+        if (nTables == 0) {
             return null;
         }