"You've got some more of those grasshoppers ?" "Three, sir," said Leather, as he laid the fish at the boy's feet, "and I can soon get some more.

You'll find these fish very good eating, but you must catch a dishful." "Why, Leather, you seem to know everything about the country." "I have had a long training, sir.

You will know more than I do when you have been here two or three years.

Now, then, throw in again." "Here, hi! Do you know one of them sheep's falled down into a hole?
I'm sure master don't mean you to be wasting all your time out there, and idling about like a schoolboy." This was yelled hoarsely from some fifty yards away, and Nic saw that his companion started as if he had been stung.
An angry speech was on Nic's lips at this interruption, but he checked it, for he knew that he had no right to keep the man from his work.
"Coming directly," he said in loud tones.

Then to.