Nearly had my birds drownded, but I got 'em atop of the thack yonder." "But hasn't your cottage been dreadfully wet ?" asked Dick, who was poking his finger in a cage full of ferrets.

"I say, what are John Warren's ferrets doing here ?" "Doin' nothing, and waiting to be took out, that's all, lad." "But wasn't your place horribly wet ?" "What care I for a drop o' watter ?" said Dave contemptuously.
"Look here, Dick, at the decoys," cried Tom running to a large wicker cage in which were four of the curious long-legged birds known as ruffs and reeves.
"Was six," said Dave.

"I lost two." "How ?" "Fightin', lad.

I niver see such bonds to fight.

Gamecocks is babies to 'em.