"And, what's more, if you help me launch this boat and then go to my missus and tell her what you've done, she'll understand, and give you the biggest pumpkinful of beer in the place.

Ah, she will understand, and bless your soft hearts and heads while you drink it--she's a cute one is my missus." "And aren't you afraid to leave her with us ?" "Not I, my daisy, unless it were that a sight of your pretty face might give her hysterics.

Now lend a hand, your accursed chatter has already cost me half an hour of the best fishing time." "In with you, old buck!" shouted the soldiers; I felt the fisherman step in, as a matter of fact he stepped in on to my toes; a dozen hands were on the gunwales: six soldier yells resounded, it seemed, in my very ears: there was the grit and rush of pebbles under the keel: a sudden lurch up of the bows, which brought the fairy lady's honey-scented lips to mine, and then the gentle lapping of deep blue waters underneath us! There is little more to be said of that voyage.

We pulled until out of sight of the town, then hoisted sail, and, with a fair wind, held upon one tack until we made an island where there was a small colony of Hither folk.
Here our friend turned back.

I gave him another gold button from my coat, and the princess a kiss upon either cheek, which he seemed to like even more than the button.