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As they got into their boats, after an hour's stay, we were invited to join them in the raid with the assurance of "the more the merrier." "Did you notice that short, Mexican-looking chap?" Nicholas asked, when they had departed to their various sloops. "He's Barchi, of the Sporting Life Gang, and the fellow that came with him is Skilling. They're both out now on five thousand dollars' bail."
Along the walls, rough planks, laid upon logs of wood, formed a row of benches. At both ends of the court lay two barrels of the newly brewed ale, which had received more malt than usual, and which, besides, through the silver skilling, and the magic dance of the maidens round the tub, had acquired extraordinary strength.
A portion of the court is roofed in, and is called the "skilling." It is merely covered in without walls, the roof supported upon oaken posts. Under this the buckets are placed to dry after being cleaned, and here the churn may often be seen. A separate staircase, rising from the dairy, gives access to the cheese-loft.
Wilhelm spoke of the boy's sweet voice, and thought that by might make his fortune at the theatre; but then he ought not now to be left running about with bare feet in the wind and rain. "But by this means he brings a skilling home," said the old woman. "That's what his father and mother look to, and the skilling they can always employ.
After the rookery the path passed a lonely dairy, where the polished brazen vessels in the skilling glittered like gold in the sunshine. Farther on came wide open meadows with numerous oak-trees scattered in the midst the outposts of the great wood at hand.
"'I wasn't aware you were hard up, I said, for I had seen him often enough flaunting it in the theatres and restaurants. "'Not for luxuries, he retorted with a guffaw, 'but for necessities yes. And there comes in the value of our domestic eyesore. Why, I haven't paid her a skilling for six months!
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