They cried out when they saw her, and when they were aland they gathered about her to note her build, and the fashion of the spear whereto she was tied.

Then in a while the more part of them, some fourscore in number, departed up the valley toward the great house and left none but a half dozen ship-warders behind.
"Seest thou, friend of the Ravens," said the Fox, "hadst thou been there, they might have done with thee what they would.

Did I not well to bring thee into my unroofed house ?" "Yea, verily," said Hallblithe; "but will not some of the ship-wards, or some of the others returning, come up hither and find us?
I shall yet lay my bones in this evil island." The Puny Fox laughed, and said: "It is not so bad as thy sour looks would have it; anyhow it is good enough for a grave, and at this present I may call it a casket of precious things." "What meanest thou ?" said Hallblithe eagerly.
"Nay, nay," said the other, "nought but what thou knowest.

Art thou not therein, and I myself?
without reckoning the old carle in the hole yonder.

But I promise thee thou shalt not die here this time, unless thou wilt.