And when he held it up to me, with the light shining on the silver, and the black ribbons hanging down, never believe him if I didn't stop squalling, and stretch out my hands with a smile as sweet as sunshine.

And Barney tied it round my neck, and took me into his arms.

And they said he spoke never a word when they told him my mother was dead, and shed never a tear when he saw her lie, but he sobbed his heart out over me." "You may well care for him!" said I.
"Indeed I may.

He kept my mother's memory green in my heart, and he taught me all ever I knew but books.

He taught me to walk, and he taught me to ride, and shooting, and fishing, and such like country diversions; and strange to say, he taught me to swim, the way they learn in my mother's country, with a bundle of bull-rushes--for the old man couldn't swim a stroke himself, or he might be here now, alive and hearty, please GOD." "Were there only you and he in the hooker ?" "That's all.