No more feeding young ravens here." "Better get to the nest, first, though," said the boy laughingly; and he leaned forward, quite out of the perpendicular, to look down below the bush which sheltered the nest.

"Easy enough: I can do it.

If Ralph Darley had been half a fellow, he would have taken it himself.

Better take off my sword, though.

No; mustn't leave that in the enemy's country.