"Any time you learn anything as interesting as that, you spring it.

Blamed if it doesn't sort of make a fellow want to be of more use in the world.

Guess I'll polish some brass!" They passed many of those islands during the next few days, lonely, rock-girt spots scantily clad with wild grass and wind-worried fir trees.

Sometimes there was a lighthouse, and nearly always the rocks were piled with lobster-traps, for lobstering is the chief industry of the inhabitants.

They touched at one small islet one afternoon and went ashore.