"That there tumbled out o' window, and I ketched it and brought it here." As he spoke he threw down the coil of nearly new rope, and I felt so delighted that I could have gone up to him and shaken hands.
"Well, that's a good un, that is," said Ike with a chuckle.

"I am 'bout fine and glad o' that." He took the rope and tied it up to the ladder again, and then turned to me.
"Come along and get some breakfast, my lad," he said.

"I dessay you're fine and hungry." "But how about Shock ?" "Oh, we'll send him out some.

Here, you, Shock, look after the cart and horse.

Don't you leave 'em," Ike added to the man; and then we made our way to a coffee-house, where Ike's first act, to my great satisfaction, was to procure a great mug of coffee and a couple of rolls, which he opened as if they had been oysters, dabbed a lump of butter in each, and then put under his arm.
"He don't deserve 'em," he growled, "for coming; but he did show me where you was." "And he saved the rope," I said.
Ike nodded.
"You sit down till I come back, my lad," he said; and then he went off, to return in a few minutes to face me at a table where we were regaled with steaming coffee and grilled haddocks.
"This is the best part of the coming to market, my lad," he said, "only it's a mistake." "What is ?" I asked.
"Haddocks, my lad.