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"Let co the anchor, Tonal'," said Ian; "the pottom should be cood here." "Hand me the pait, Junkie," said McGregor. "Shie a bit this way," shouted Eddie. "There I've broke it!" exclaimed Junkie, almost whimpering, as he held up the handle of his knife in one hand, and in the other a mussel with a broken blade sticking in it. "Never mind, Junkie.
You can have mine, and keep it," said Mabberly, handing to the delighted boy a large buck-horn-handled knife, which bristled with appliances. "An' don't try it on again," said Ian. "Here iss pait for you, my poy." A few minutes more, and the lines were down, and expectation was breathlessly rampant.
"That pays for my place, but how about my principles, my conscience?" said Europe, cocking her crafty little nose and giving the Baron a serio-comic leer. "Your conscience shall not be pait for so much as your place; but I shall say fife tousand franc more," said he adding five thousand-franc notes. "No, no. Twenty thousand for my conscience, and five thousand for my place if I lose it "
My friend has been out in India, and his prescriptions have been conceived in a warm climate, you see, which may account for their wonder-working qualities. Can we have your boat to-day, Mr Anderson?" "Oo, ay; ye can hev that, sir," said Ian, summoning Donald to his presence with a motion of his finger. "Tonal'," he said, when ragged head stood at the open door, "hev we ony pait?" "Ay, plenty."
His Christian name was Richard. No one would have presumed to call him Dick but himself. No result following this appeal to the tail of the swirl, he sat down on the bank and once more changed his hook. The nature of change might have been heard by the insects among the heather close by, if they were listening, for Donald whispered to his companion, "He's coin' to try pait!"
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