I just want to put your mind at rest: you shall have no trouble with me." There was something trusty and friendly in his voice; and I found myself gripping hands with him, in that hard, short shake that means so much with English-speaking people.
"We'll do, old fellow," said he.

"We've shaken down into pretty good friends, you and me; and you won't find me working the business any the less hard for that.

And now let's scoot for supper." After supper, with the idle curiosity of the seafarer, we pulled ashore in a fine moonlight, and landed on Middle Brook's Island.

A flat beach surrounded it upon all sides; and the midst was occupied by a thicket of bushes, the highest of them scarcely five feet high, in which the sea-fowl lived.

Through this we tried at first to strike; but it were easier to cross Trafalgar Square on a day of demonstration than to invade these haunts of sleeping sea-birds.