I thought these would please her.

One gets falls while scrambling after the like." He put his hand into his pouch as he spoke.
"Plague on it, one is broken," he said, bringing out a raven's egg.
"There were two in that place where I stopped falling." The ealdorman and I stared at him in wonder.

It amazed us that in such a moment a man should think of this trifle.

And now he was turning his soiled pouch inside out and wiping it with a tuft of grass, grumbling the while.

It was plain that the danger had made no impression on him.
"Were not you frightened when you found how nearly you had fallen from the cliff ?" I asked him.
"No; why should I be?
I did not fall from it.