The tiny sails caught the puff, causing the canoe to lean slightly over, and glide with a rippling sound through the water, while Moses steered by means of his paddle.
"You have put Spinkie down below, I think," said Nigel, who had been struck more than once with the hermit's extreme tenderness and care of the little creature.
"Yes, to prevent it from being washed overboard.

I nearly lost the poor little thing once or twice, and now when we are likely to be caught in bad weather I put him below." "Is he not apt to be suffocated ?" asked Nigel.

"With everything made so tight to prevent water getting into the canoe, you necessarily prevent air entering also." "I see you have a mechanical turn of mind," returned the hermit.

"You are right.

Yet in so large a canoe the air would last a considerable time to satisfy a monkey.