It must have been done, they thought, by coming into contact with something or other in the water; perhaps the skiff itself.

Arm and ankle were both much swollen.
Nothing was certainly known as yet of Lord Hartledon from the time Mr.
Carteret parted company with him, to the time when the body was found.

It appeared that these Irish labourers were going home from their work, singing as they went, their road lying past the mill, when they were spoken to by the miller's boy.

He stood on the species of estrade which the miller had placed there for his own convenience, bending down as far as his young head and shoulders could reach, and peering into the water attentively.

"I think I see some'at in the stream," quoth he, and the men stopped; and after a short time, proceeded to search.