They were all Lancashire folks, on both sides.

I know all about them as far back as my great-grandfather's and great-grandmother's." "Do you know if your brother ever came to Berwick as a lad ?" asked Mr.
Lindsey, with a glance at me.
"He might ha' done that, sir," said Mrs.Hanson.

"He was a great, masterful, strong lad, and he'd run off to sea by the time he was ten years old--there'd been no doing aught with him for a couple of years before that.

I knew that when he was about twelve or thirteen he was on a coasting steamer that used to go in and out of Sunderland and Newcastle, and he might have put in here." "To be sure," said Mr.Lindsey.

"But what's more important is to get on to his later history.