And a merry day they made of it, and rowed back by the moonshine.

For every one liked and respected Captain Cockscroft on account of his skill with the deep-sea lines, and the openness of his hands when full--a wonderful quiet and harmless man, as the manner is of all great fishermen.

They had bacon for breakfast whenever they liked, and a guinea to lend to any body in distress.
"Then suddenly one morning, when his hair was growing gray and his eyes getting weary of the night work, so that he said his young Robin must grow big enough to learn all the secrets of the fishes, while his father took a spell in the blankets, suddenly there came to them a shocking piece of news.

All his wife's bit of money, and his own as well, which he had been putting by from year to year, was lost in a new-fangled Bank, supposed as faithful as the Bible.

Joan was very nearly crazed about it; but Captain Cockscroft never heaved a sigh, though they say it was nearly seven hundred guineas.