She said several times that she wished she had been a boy, and I wished so too.

Still, of course, mother, I am very glad I am back.
There is no place like home, you know; and then there are the fellows at school, and the games, and the sea, and all sorts of things; and it's a horrid nuisance to think that I have got to go down there regularly for my holidays.

Still, of course, as you wish it, I will do so; and now that I know what it is like it won't be so bad another time.

Anyhow, I am glad I have got another ten days before school begins." The following morning Ralph went down to the beach.

"Why, Master Conway," an old fisherman said, "you are a downright stranger.