"You can see the fishes quite plain." "I don't want to see 'em," he replied sulkily.

"When are you going home ?" "Oh, not forever so long; not till tea-time.

Here comes Big!" Bob did not look round, but his ears seemed to twitch as the sound of our schoolmates' heavy tread came over the stones, for he lumbered along at a trot with a big maund, as we called the baskets there, in one hand, a great landing-net in the other.

But as Bigley came to the edge of the pool Bob waded out and said in a low quiet voice: "Shall I carry the basket ?" We both stared, for in an ordinary way Bob would have shouted, "Here, give us hold of the net," and snatched at it or anything else in his desire to take the lead.
"No, no," cried Bigley, though.

"You two chaps are visitors.