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"I can't tell ye, Miss Pray," said he, "how much I've enjiyed the evenin' no, honest, I can't tell ye!" he winked at Captain Pharo, who choked and had to resort to song "but I und'stand thar 's a happy event comin', an' I wish ye jiy; ye know I do!" Git up, ye old skate!"
The fishes are the lowest among the common vertebrates, and they offer an abundance of independent testimony as to the truth of the principles of comparative anatomy. The common shark is perhaps the most fundamental form, with a hull-like body undivided into head, trunk, and tail, and from it have originated such peculiar variations as the hammerhead and skate.
Fish are cheaper and more plentiful here than anything else, and the old dame at the yadoya of a fishing village cooks me a big skate for supper, which makes first-rate eating, in spite of the black, malodorous sauce she uses so liberally in the cooking. In this room is a wonderful brass-bound cabinet, suggestive of soul-satisfying household idols and comfortable private worship.
"That being the case," said he, "and Elisha on the bum, I guess I'll take a night off. This Sherlock Holmes stuff is wearing on the nerves." Al Engle delivered the message, giving it a strong backing of personal opinion. "No, Abe, it's all right, I tell you. It's straight. I've seen the horse myself, ain't I? Know him? Man alive, I had the skate in my barn for nearly a month! I ought to know him.
They looked each other steadily in the eye as they grasped hands by the bonfire, and in his inmost heart each man recognized in the other an antagonist. Richard skated away with Miss Drummond, a wholesomely gay and attractive girl who could skate as well as she could talk and laugh.
It's wonderful to-night, isn't it? Let's skate on down to the mouth and out to sea. What do you say?" "A beautiful plan. We have a good start; we must make time or it will be moonset before we come to the sea." "This is a glorious stroke; let's hit it up a little, swing a little farther and make for the mouth of the river. No talking till we come in sight. We're off!"
Besides, there may be times when a pair of skates would be handy going over the glaciers. It's not called Glacier Park for nothing, I dare say. When we went into the Maine woods we went unprepared. This time I intend to be ready for any emergency." But we gave her little encouragement. We would go along, and told her so. But further than that I refused to prepare. I would not skate, and said so.
I tried to make granny laugh by saying he would be a good buffer to fall upon. I saw she was looking grave, and I felt a little cross at her not wanting me to skate, and I persisted about it. 'Do let me, grandmamma, I said. 'I can order a pair of skates at Barridge's. They don't keep the best kind in stock, but I know they can get them. 'No, my dear, said grandmamma at last, very decidedly.
"What a long skate you have had!" said Susy Fairbairn ruefully, for all that she was a good-tempered girl and not disposed to measure her neighbor's wheat by her own bushel.
He was ready enough to skate now, but a thaw came, and there was no other chance afforded that term. A week before the Christmas holidays a boy named Gould came up to Crawley and said, "I wish you would come and stay with me a week or so this Christmas at my father's place in Suffolk, Nugget Towers.
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