"We haven't discovered it." "Now don't you go and spoil things," said Turly.

"I mean to discover it." They soon saw that the fishermen were really coming for them, and not a bit too soon, for the tide was rising round their rock, and, besides, they were so cold and hungry that their courage was nearly exhausted.
"Now, will ye tell me where did the pair of ye come from ?" said one of the men.

"Is it down out of heaven ye are, or up out of the sea?
By my word I'm not sure at all about takin' the like o' ye into my boat." "Hold your tongue, man," said the other.

"Don't you see the childher's teeth are chatterin' out of their heads with the cold.

Come in here, little lady and gentleman, and then ye can tell us what bad ship threw you out of it to where ye are." "It wasn't a ship; it was a boat," said Turly.