He kept a meteorological log, and the pleasantest work we ever did was in helping him to take observations.

We became very much bitten with the subject, and I bought three pickle-bottles from the cook, and filled them with gulf-weed and other curiosities for Charlie, and stowed these away with the birds.
Dennis found another letter from his father awaiting him at the Halifax post-office.

The squire had discovered his blunder, and sent the money, and the way in which Dennis immediately began to plan purchases of all sorts, from a birch-bark canoe to a bearskin rug, gave me a clue to the fortunes of the O'Moores.

I do not think he would have had enough left to pay his passage if we had been delayed for long.

But our old ship was expected any hour, and when she came in we made our way to her at once, and the upshot of it all was, that Dennis and I shipped in her for the return voyage as passengers, and Alister as a seaman.
Nothing can make the North Atlantic a pleasant sea.