It was plain she understood perfectly what he wished, for she endeavoured to hold her neck conveniently, turning it this way and that while he contrived, with his rather scanty material, to make the collar fit.

As his mother had taken care to provide him with needles and thread, he soon had a nice gorget ready for her.

He laced it on with one of his boot laces, which its long hair covered.
Poor Lina looked much better in it.

Nor could any one have called it a piece of finery.

If ever green eyes with a yellow light in them looked grateful, hers did.
As they had no longer any bag to carry them in, Curdie and Lina now ate what was left of the provisions.