It was Ram, and he was playing peewit.

The cunning rascal! Oh, if I only get hold of him! "Yes; there's no doubt about it, and he has been too clever for us.

He was watching by the entrance, and just as the men got up, and would have found it, he jumped up and dodged about, letting the men nearly catch him, and then running away and leading them farther and farther on." "Never mind.

I'll get the men together, and we'll go back to the place and soon find it.

Oh, how vexatious! Which way does the sea lie ?" There was not a star to be seen, and the night was darker than ever.
He listened, but the night was too calm for the waves to be heard at the foot of the cliffs, and, gaze which way he would, there was nothing but dimly seen rugged ground with occasional slopes of smooth, short grass.
"Ahoy!" he cried at last, and "Ahoy!" came back faintly.
"Hurrah!" he said, after answering again, and walking in the direction from which the cry came, downward in one of the combe-like hollows of the district.