Part 5 (1/2)

”Yes, father”

”And see if there's any eggs to take too”

”Yes, father But--”

”Well?”

”Think the lugger will co, and don't you Will you keep that rattle tongue of yours quiet? Never know ers, do you?”

”No, father”

”Then set your teeth hard, or you'll never be a row into a Jemmy Dadd?”

”No, father”

”Then be off”

The boy went off at a run, and the fisher-far the two rutted tracks till he came down into the valley, and then went on and on, towards where a couple of ht

CHAPTER FOUR

Ramillies--commonly known by his father'sonce to flop down on the grass to gaze at the cutter, lying ahow different she ith her trier of his father, and the dirty three-masted vessels that ran to and fro across the Channel, and upon which he had h, and continued his journey down into the hollow, and along a regular trough a, roofed with thin pieces of the saaily dotted and splashed with lichen and , ruddy-faced woman, who shouted,--”What is it, Ram?” when he was fifty yards away

The boy stated his errand

”Father says you were to take all that?”

”Yes”

”Then there's a cargo coht, Ra a mile out”

”Oh, dear, dear, dear!” cried the woman; ”I hope there won't be no trouble, boy”

She stood wiping her dry hands upon her apron, and gazed thoughtfully rinkled brow straight before her for adown a basket as she s in the dairy, while Ra about a bottle of crea

”Then hear, see, and say nothing, my lad,” cried his mother