"He thinks the State's looking after him every minute." Willis saw some planks had been taken up in a distant part of the wharf's flooring.

He went there and swung himself down under the wharf.

There were rocks there, and Willis, following the sound of a hammer, came to his father.
"That you, Willis ?" asked his father pleasantly.
"Pa," said the boy, "some of the other men are up there eating crabs.

Why don't you go up and get some, too ?" "It isn't lunch-time," returned Mr.Sutherland.

"We're expected to work now." "Three or four of the men aren't working," said Willis.
"No," rejoined his father.