He stays at old Wellham, about five miles down the river, where the people are not true Moonites.

And one thing that puzzles them is, that although he puts up there simply for the angling, he always chooses times when the water is so low that to catch fish is next to impossible.
He left his fishing quarters upon the very day after you saw him searching so; and he spoke as if he did not mean to come again this season.

And they say that they don't want him neither, he is such a morose, close-fisted man; and drinking nothing but water, there is very little profit with him." "And did you find out what his name is?
How cleverly you have managed!" "He passes by the name of 'Captain Brown;' but the landlord of his inn, who has been an old soldier, is sure he was never in the army, nor any other branch of the service.

He thinks that he lives by inventing things, for he is always at some experiments, and one of his great points is to make a lamp that will burn and move about under water.

To be sure you see the object of that, miss ?" "No, really, Mrs.Busk, I can not.