It seemed too bad to mother and father.
But you mean it ?" "Yes, I mean it!" said Dick, with a load off his breast.

"I felt that it would be like running away because we were afraid to face a charge." "Hooray!" cried Tom in a whisper.

"I say, Dick, don't think me a coward, but I am so glad! I say, shall I go back now ?" "No; stop a bit," whispered Dick, with his heart beating, and a strange suspicion making its way into his breast.

For in an incoherent vague manner he found himself thinking of Farmer Tallington stealing out of his house in the middle of the night.

He had a boat, as most of the fen farmers had, for gunning, fishing, and cutting reeds.