Part 3 (1/2)
”You said you were beaten”
”Yes, for to-day; but I can't afford to let you knock me about like this I say, you did hurt”
”Nonsense! I could have hit twice as hard as that Pull your jersey over your head again, and I'll show you”
”Likely! Neverhimself a shake; ”I'll save it up for you Phew! you havehis coth upon the elastic heath, to lie gazing at the brilliant blue sea, stretching far away to where a patch of amethyst here and there on the horizon told of other islands, bathed in the glowing sunshi+ne
The land ended a hundred yards from where the two lads lay as suddenly as if it had been cut sharply off, and went down perpendicularly some two hundred and fifty feet to where the transparent waves broke softly, with hardly a sound, aolden-broith fucus, or running quietly over the yellow sand, but which, in a store banks of water, to smite the face of the cliff, fall back and fret, and churn up the weed into balls of froth, which flew up, and were carried by the wind right across the island
”Where's old Deane?” said Vince suddenly
”Taken a book to go and sit on the rock shelf and read Plutarch I say, what a lot he does know!”
”No wonder,” said Vince, as parting the heather and peering down beneath: ”he's always reading I wish he was fonder of co”
”So do I,” said Mike ”We'd h”
”I don't see why he shouldn't help us,” continued Vince ”Father says a ht to look after his body as well as his brains, so as always to be healthy and strong”
”Why did he say that?” said Mike sharply
”Because it was right,” said Vince ”My father's always right”
”No, he isn't He didn't knoas the hed
”What are you grinning at?”
”What you said He kneell enough, only he wouldn't say because he did not want to offend your father”
”What do you mean?”
”That he always sat indoors, and didn't take enough exercise”
”Pish!+ The Doctor did not know,” said Mike sharply, and colouring a little; ”and I don't believe he wants people to be well”
”Hi! Look here!” cried Vince excitedly ”Lizard!”
A little green reptile, looking like ahands, darted out from beneath the heath into the sunshi+ne; and Mike snatched off his cap, and dabbed it over the little fugitive with so true an aim that as he held the cap down about three inches of the wiry tail remained outside
”Got him!” cried Mike triu to hurt it!”