Suddenly she heard a splash, and felt a flopping object placed, net and all, directly in her lap.

With eagerness she caught it in her hands, meeting Tim's towsley head, engaged in the same errand, and much disposed to claim the fish as all his own.
"There's Grandpa!" said Doctor Barnes.

"I've lost my bet to Sim Gage--that fellow will go over three pounds.

I didn't know there was such a grayling in the world." "And now tell me," said he, as she felt him lift the fish from her lap, and with woman's instinct brushed away the drops of water from her frock, "isn't life worth living after all, when you have a day like this, and a sky such as we have, and sport like this ?" He looked at her face.

There was less droop to the corners of her mouth than he ever had seen.