Otherwise I shouldn't have been so glad to see you home for the holidays you've earned, and be ready to say to you, `Never mind about holiday lessons, I don't approve of them, my lad; put them aside and I'll make excuses for you to the doctor.

Work as hard as you can when you are at school, and now you are at home, play as hard as you can.' We must have a bit of fishing.

I've got some new lines, and a trammel net to set, and we'll do a good deal of boating.

You sha'n't stand still for want of something to do.
What's that ?" "Only a stone, father," I replied, for in pulling out my handkerchief, the piece that I had put in my pocket on the previous day flew out, and fell with a crash in the fireplace.
"What do you want with stones in your pocket ?" he said rather crossly, as he rose and picked up the piece to throw it out of the window; but, as soon as he had it in his hand, its appearance took his attention.

He turned it over, weighed it in his hand, and then held it more to the light.
I went on eating my breakfast and watching him closely, for I did not want to lose that piece of stone, and I was afraid that he would ask me more questions about it, sooner than bear which I was ready to see him throw the piece of rock out of the window, when, if he threw it far enough, the chances were that it would go over the cliff and fall upon the beach.
Just as I feared, the questions came as he put on his glasses and examined the fragment more closely.
"Where did you get this, Sep ?" he said--"on the beach ?" "No, father, up on this side of the Gap." "Whereabouts ?" "About three hundred yards from Uggleston's cottage, and half-way up the slope, where the rocks stand up so big on the top." "Hah! Yes, I know the place.