'Oh! but we want to know lots and lots more,'said Dan. 'How
you got home - and what old Maingon said on the barge - and
wasn't your cousin surprised when he had to give back the BERTHE
AURETTE, and -'
'Tell us more about Toby!' cried Una.
'Yes, and Red Jacket,' said Dan.
'Won't you tell us any more?' they both pleaded.
Puck kicked the oak branch on the fire, till it sent up a column
of smoke that made them sneeze. When they had finished the
Shaw was empty except for old Hobden stamping through the
larches.
'They gipsies have took two,'he said. "My black pullet and my
liddle gingy-speckled cockrel.'
'I thought so,' said Dan, picking up one tail-feather that the old
woman had overlooked.
'Which way did they go? Which way did the runagates go?'
said Hobden.
'Hobby!' said Una. 'Would you like it if we told Keeper Ridley
all your goings and comings?'
'Poor Honest Men'
Your jar of Virginny
Will cost you a guinea,
Which you reckon too much by five shilling or ten;
But light your churchwarden
And judge it accordin'
When I've told you the troubles of poor honest men.
From the Capes of the Delaware,
As you are well aware,
We sail with tobacco for England - but then
Our own British cruisers,
They watch us come through, sirs,
And they press half a score of us poor honest men.
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