In case of need, he would, I believe, have given his left hand in her service; and the right, I think he would have kept for himself and me.

He procured from somewhere a great beam of ship's timber, and with infinite labour fixed it securely in a crevice of the rocks, high up by the Gale de Jacob, with one end projecting over the shelving rocks below.

Then, with rope and pulley from the same ample storehouse, he showed Carette how she could, with her own unaided strength, hitch on her cockleshell and haul it up the cliff side out of reach of the hungriest wave.

He made her a pair of tiny sculls too, and thenceforth she was free of the seas, and she flitted to and fro, and up and down that rugged western coast, till it was all an open book to her.

But so venturesome was she, and so utterly heedless of danger, that we all went in fear for her, and she laughed all our fears to scorn..