(These trees are screw pines.) There is a roof ready made.

You must have another roof underneath that, but it will do for a day or two." "But you will wattle the screen directly," said Helen.

"Begin at once, please.

I am anxious to see a screen wattled." "Well," said Welch, who had joined them, "landsmen are queer folk, the best of 'em.

Why, miss, it would take him a week to screen you with rushes and reeds, and them sort of weeds; and I'd do it in half an hour, if I was the Tom Welch I used to be.