I have missed you rarely." "I told you I was going away, Joe, and that I shouldn't get back until the holidays were nearly over." "I know you did," the fisherman replied.

"Still it does seem strange without you.

Every time as I goes out I says to Bill if Master Conway was at home he would be with us to-day, Bill.

It don't seem no ways natural without him.' And there's been good fishing, too, this season, first rate; and the weather has been just what it should be." "Well, I am back now, Joe, anyhow; and I have got ten days before school begins again, and I mean to make the most of it.

Are you going out to-day ?" "At four o'clock," the fisherman said.