"I should enjoy it, boys, above all things." "There, Dave, now then! What is it--a drag-net ?" "Nay, Mester Dick, on'y a bit of a new." "But where are you going ?" "I thowt o' the strip 'tween Long Patch and Bootherboomp's Roostens." "Here, stop a moment," cried the engineer.

"I've heard that name before.

Who was Mr Bootherboomp ?" "Hi--hi--hi! hecker--hecker--hecker.

Heigh!" That does not express the sounds uttered by Dave, for they were more like an accident in a wooden clock, when the wheels run down and finish with a jerk which breaks the cogs.

But that was Dave's way of laughing, and it ended with a horrible distortion of his features.
"I say: don't, Dave.