The present that you left in my father's hands, to buy him a boat when he was old enough to start as a fisherman on his own account, would have made a man of him, but it is hidden somewhere in the thatch of his father's cottage.

When my father first went to the war, he handed it over to Larry, as he could not say what might happen before his return.

Larry was at first delighted with the thought that some day he should have a boat of his own, and a boat, too, larger than any on the shore; but when I accompanied my father, Larry insisted on going with me.
"'It will be time enough to buy a boat, when the war is over,' he said.
"And as I was very glad to have him with me, and my father did not object, Larry had his way, and he has been with me ever since.

He is enrolled in the troop now, and, when he thinks there is any chance of fighting, he takes his place in the ranks, but at other times he acts as my servant." "Tell him I have not forgotten him," Colonel L'Estrange said.

"While you have been doing so much, I have had a quiet time of it.