Can you give me shelter ?" "That I can," the man said, "and gladly.

Those villains have been killing and destroying all over the country, and there's many a one of us who, like myself, have been driven to take refuge in the bogs." "Is it far ?" Walter asked; "for I don't think I could get more than a mile or two." "It is not half a mile," the man said.

"You do look nearly done for.
Here, lean on me, I will help you along; and if you find your strength go, I will make a shift to carry you." "It is lucky I heard you whistle," Walter said.
"It is, indeed," the man replied, "for it is not likely anyone else would have come along today.

My dog went off after a rabbit, and I was whistling to him to come to me again.
"Ah! Here he is.

He has got the rabbit, too.