Part 4 (1/2)

”Taking Jemmy Carnach a bottle of physic,” said the old felloith a low, curious laugh, which sounded as if an accident had happened to the works of a wooden clock ”He'shimself doctor's bills I'd ha' cured hiiven hireat brown eagle-beak nose with a finger that would have grated nut o'

water out of a tar tub, and a lotion o' rope's end, and made him dance for half an hour He'd ha' been 'quite well thank ye' to-hed

”Ay, that's what's the entleman A man who can't ketch lobsters and sell 'em like a Christian, but must take 'em home, and byle 'e out of his head like the fish he wolfs, desarves to be ill

Well, I must be off and see what luck I've had”

”Co up--an order which his companion obeyed with alacrity

The old felloned and stared

”And wherewith you,” said Vince pro out to look at your lobster-pots and nets, didn't you?”

”Nay, ne'er a word like it,” growled the oing to see what luck you'd had”

”Ay, so I did; but that , or rabbit in a trap aside the cliff”

”Yes,” said Vince, laughing merrily; ”or a bit of tihtn't it, Mike? Only fancy old Joe Daygo going !”

”You're a nice sarcy one as ever I see,” said the hs ”I like o hunting for therow potatoes; and as for setting a trap for a rabbit--not you”

”You're fine and cunning, youngster,” said the azed searchingly at the lad froy brows

”Sit on the cliff with your old glass,” said Vince, ”when you're not fishi+ng or selling your lobsters and crabs He don't eat them himself, does he, Mike?”

”No My father says he makes more of his fish than any one, or he wouldn't be the richest man on the island”

The old man scowled darkly

”Oh! Sir Francis said that, did he?”

”Yes, I heard hi well off, for your place was your own, and it didn't cost you anything to live, so you couldn't help saving”