You're Adam Gaudylock, the great hunter!" "So I am, so I am!" quoth Adam.

"Look here, little partridge, at what I've got in my pouch!" The partridge busied herself with the beaded thing, and the two boys talked aside.

"I've till dinner time to do what I like in," said Lewis Rand.

"Have you got to work ?" "Not unless I want to," Young Mocket answered blissfully.

"Father, he don't care! Besides"-- he swelled with pride--"I don't work now at the wharf.