Part 3 (2/2)
”You are Suppose a Brobdig-what-you-reat cap down over you--it would hurt, wouldn't it?”
”Not if I lay still; and there wouldn't be a bit of tail sticking out if he did,” said Mike laughing--”I' to hurt you, old chap, but to take you home and put you in the conservatory to catch and eat the flies and blight Co to put hio hoer on his tail and hold him while you lift my cap; then I can catch him with ! He can't bite to hurt Ready?”
”Yes,” said Vince, stretching out his hand ”Better let hiaht”
”Up with the cap, then”
Vince lifted the cap, and burst out laughing, for it was like soone
”Why, you never caught it!” he said
”Yes, I did: you saw its tail I've got it under my hand now”
”You've dropped it,” cried Vince ”Lift up”
Mike raised his hand, and there, sure enough, was the lizard's tail, writhing like a worm, and apparently as full of life as its late owner, but, not being endoith feet, unable to escape
”Poor little wretch!” said Vince; ”how horrid! But he has got away”
”Without his tail!”
”Yes; but that will soon grow again”
”Think so?”
”Why, of course it will: just as a crab's or lobster's claw does”
”Hullo, young gentleruff voice, and a thick-set, elderly rim, deeply-lined brown face twisted up into a san to softly polish his bald head, which was surrounded by a thick hedge of shaggy grey hair, but paused for a narled knuckles His hands were enorrown into the forainst a heavy sea
His dress was exceedingly si of a coarsely-knitted blue jersey shi+rt that randfather of the one Vince wore; and a pair of trousers, of a kind of drab drugget, so thick that they would certainly have stood up by themselves, and so cut that they came nearly up to the man's armpits, and covered his back and chest, while the braces he ere short in the extreme To finish the description of an individual who played a very important part in the lives of the two island boys, he had on a heavy pair of fisherht have been drawn up over his knees, but now hung clulers in a penny picture, as he stood looking down grimly, and slowly resettled his sealskin cap upon his head
”What are you two a-doing of?” he asked ”Nothing,” said Mike shortly
”And what brings you round here?”
”I've been taking Jemmy Carnach a bottle of physic; and we came round,”
cried Vince ”Why?”