Shall we let him light us home ?" "Why, we should have to see him home afterwards, father," said Dick merrily.
"Right, my lad! Good-night, Tallington! You are in for your two hundred, mind." "Yes, and may it bring good luck to us!" said the fanner.

"Good-night to both of you!" "Good-night!" Dick supplemented his "good-night" with a pat on the head of the great sheep-dog, which stood staring along the track, and snuffing the wind; and then he and his father started homeward.
"I shall come over directly after breakfast, Dick," shouted Tom.
"All right!" replied Dick as he looked back, to see that the lantern had now become stationary, and then it once more began to dance up and down, while the two lights shone out like tiny stars a few hundred yards away.
"They've got the best of it, Dick," said the squire.

"Why, we were nearly there.

Let's make haste or your mother will be uneasy.

Phew! the wind's getting high!".