Travels and Exploits
of Two Schoolboys
WALKS, TALKS,
TRAVELS AND EXPLOITS
OF
TWO SCHOOLBOYS
Jack after the Starling's Nest. p. 103 Frontispiece
WALKS, TALKS
TRAVELS AND EXPLOITS
OF
TWO SCHOOLBOYS
a Booft for
BY
THE REV. J. C. ATKINSON
CANON OF YORK AND INCUMBENT OF DANBY
AUTHOR OF ' PLAYHOURS AND HALF-HOLIDAYS,' : FORTY YEARS
IN A MOORLAND PARISH,' ETC,
NEW EDITION
SLonlion
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1892
All rights reserved
PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION
THE author of the following pages feels that
something in the shape of an explanation at
least, if not an apology, may justly be expected
from him for the apparent presumption of re-
producing a book which was written for, and
addressed to, the ' Schoolboy Public ' of no less
than thirty-three years ago. His apology must
be, not that the book met with an even flattering
reception from the beginning, but that now, for
several years past, correspondents new and old,
and from many parts of the kingdom, who were
boys themselves when the book first appeared,
and who now have boys of their own, have
inquired of him once and again as to his willing-
ness to reproduce both the present volume and
its sequel (Playhours and Half -Holidays), and
perhaps the most grateful response he could
make is that which is offered by the re-issue of
the volumes in question.
DANBY, 8th February 1892.
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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
Elmdon School Dr. Tickletail Dr. Noble Jack Edwards-
Holiday Eambles School Traditions The Ghost Cricket
Returning to quarters pp. 1 12
CHAPTER II.
At Elmdon still Docwra's Mill The Bridge A Plucky Rat
Old Exploits Bob's Narrative Leaving Elmdon . . 13 18
CHAPTER III.
Walk the First Loach Hunt Partridge Nest The Warren-
Snipe's Nest Pewits and Eggs Hagley Beacon The Mere
Ducks and Nest Coots, Waterhens, and Dabchicks . 19 40
CHAPTER IV.
Walk the Second Robert Banks Dabchicks, Coots, Water-
hens, Reed-warblers, their Nests and Eggs .... 41 62
CHAPTER V.
Walk the Third Eel-hooks Setting Lines Kingfisher's Nest
Dipper and Nest Wilson's Filmy Fern Eel, Perch, and
Trout caught 63 88
X CONTENTS.
CHAPTER VI.
Walk the Fourth The Grove The Hart-stone The Haven
Tree Wriltou Castle Goldcrest's Nest The Lake Crow's
Nest pp. 89114
CHAPTER VII.
School Examination Walk the Fifth Merlin's Eggs Golden
Plover's Nest Stonechat's, Whinchat's, Common and Moun-
tain Linnets' Nests Corncrake's, Whitethroat's, I,ongtailed
Tomtit's, and Willow Wrsn's Nests 115135
CHAPTER VIII.
Walk the Sixth Sandpiper's and Magpie's Nests Bush Mag-
pie and Tree Magpie Nests of the Nuthatch, Ringdove,
Woodcock, Stockdove, and Spotted Woodpecker . . 136 159
CHAPTER IX.
Walk the Sixth continued Pheasant Breeding The Badger
The White-tailed Eagle Capture of another Badger, 160 182
CHAPTER X.
Visit to Sir Cuthhert The Fowl on the Lake Sollington
Heronry and Abbey The Buck-stone Fly-Rods Crossbill's
Nest Return to Elmdon 183 208
CHAPTER XI.
Fly-fishing Expedition "Foxing the Fish" Chasing the
Poacher Shrike's Nest Wrinkles in Fly-fishing Capture
of Fish 209229
CHAPTER XII.
Another Fly-fishing Excursion A Dish of Trout Red Viper
A little Botany Curlew's and Norfolk Plover's Eggs 230248
CONTENTS. XI
CHAPTER XIII.
The Cricket Match pp. 249270
CHAPTER XIV.
Beginning of the Holidays Dunchester and its Castle Roman
Bank Hareborough Cuckoo's Eggs Nuthatches 271 296
CHAPTER XV.
Egg-hunting and Sea-fishing Redshank's, Common Tern's,
Oyster-Catcher's, Gull's, Ring-Dotterel's, and Reeve's Eggs
Codlings, Skate, and Grey Mullet caught . . . 297322
CHAPTER XVI.
Afloat Bridlington Bay Flamborough Rockbirds and their
Eggs Berwick Bay Eyemouth The Fort Asplenium
Marinum The Gunsgreen Rocks 323342
CHAPTER XVII.
St. Abb's Head Breakfast Rockdoves Overhanging Cliffs
Coldingham Loch and Church Storm Sailing in Quest
Rescue Return to Eyemouth 343 373
CHAPTER XVIII.
Trip to the Bass Dunbar Phosphorescent Sea Fishing in the
"VVhitadder Fast Castle Dunglass and Pease Deans Fame
Islands Home again 374 403
CHAPTER XIX.
At Hareborough A Walk on the Marshes The Owlets A Traw-
ling Voyage Shrimps Wildfowl Shooting Afloat 404 433
CHAPTER I.
Elmdon School Dr. Tickletail Dr. Noble Jack Edwards
Holiday Rambles School Traditions The Ghost Cricket
Returning to Quarters.
WHAT a nice old town Elmdon was ! I was at
school there : that was in old Dr. TickletaiFs time.
How well I remember the Doctor, with his rusty
gown that had been black once, and his spectacles
that would not sit straight across his nose, but
rode like a butcher-boy, all down on one side;
and his cane, which used to come flying across the*
school, and had to be carried back to its owner
by the boy that was going to try its taste ; and his
finger jingling time with the key of his desk as he
sang for he didn't read the odes of Horace
And I haven't forgotten the coaches, twelve " up"
and twelve "down" every day; and how they
were covered, as well as filled, inside and out, with
B
2 GETTING INTO A SCRAPE.
turkeys and hares, and pheasants and partridges,
just the last days before the Christmas holidays be-
gun; and the huge flocks of geese which used to
go cackling and waddling along the road about
Michaelmas, with their gozzards (goose-herds)
to drive them and take care of them in their
slow, tiresome, tedious journey up to London to
be eaten there. But all this is many years ago.
It is more than twenty years since the good old
Doctor flung his cane for the last time, and was
laid in the quiet churchyard, near the little door
through which he saw his boys pass into the
church, Sunday after Sunday, for so long. The
coaches are forgotten as well as the Doctor ; the
Christmas turkeys and game go up in the luggage
van, and the geese in sheep trucks, tier above tier ;
and when the holidays come, the boys race down
to the station, not far from the river at the bot-
tom of the town, instead of being taken up at the
school by the ' ' Blue," or the " Wellington/' or
the " Telegraph."
I left long before the railway came, and how
strange it seemed to me, when, having to go to
Elmdon again after several years, on coming out
from a cutting I found myself passing just below
the dear old churchyard, and the great old elms
that surrounded it to the south. How well I re-
membered them, and the scrape I got into when
HAERY BENSON. 3
the parson's man caught me one morning cutting
notches and driving nails in the huge twisting
stalks of ivy that clothed those elm-tree trunks
for I was trying to get gum-ivy, which an old
fishing book I had said was a famous thing to
anoint the baits with and make the fish bite ;
only it never made any difference that I could find
out.
The reason of my going back to Elmdon was
this. I had been paying a visit to my old school-
fellow and friend, Harry Benson. We of course
got talking about old school scenes, and exploits,
and scrapes, and it made me very desirous to see
the old place once more ; and so when he went on
to talk of his younger son, Bob, who was now at
school there, and how well he was doing, and
what a good master and worthy successor to our
old Doctor the present head-master, Doctor Noble,
was, I determined that on my way home from
London whither I had to go after leaving Harry
Benson's I would go round by Elmdon and make
a visit to Bob, (who was my god-son, and whom I
had not seen since he was promoted to jacket and
trousers,) the excuse for doing so.
"Well, the 2.30 train was not more than five
minutes late, and almost before I had time to
turn round on the platform, two lads came up to
me, and the shorter of the two spoke to me at
4 OPENING AN ACQUAINTANCE.
once, saying, " I am sure you must be Mr.
Spencer."
I couldn't help smiling, and replied, " Why,
what makes you think so ?"
" Oh ! because they told me "
" They told you," interrupted I ; " who told
you ?"
" Why, in a letter I got from home yesterday
morning, they said I was to look for a gentle-
man that wanted shaving, and I am sure you want
it, sir. And besides, I think "
But here he paused, looking up into my face
with a twinkle in his eye.
" Well," I said, after a moment or two waiting
for him to go on, " and what do you think be-
sides?"
" Why, that you look like a ' brick/ and papa
always says you are a brick and no mistake."
As I happened to have a beard that would have
been a small fortune to a sofa-stuffer, and did not
feel inclined to disclaim looking like " a brick,"
whatever that might imply, I acknowledged that
I was Mr. Spencer, and shook hands very heartily
with Master Bob.
" And who is your friend ?" I said to him, after
having sent forward my luggage to the " Angel,"
where I was going to stop, and beginning to walk
in the same direction myself.
JACK EDWAEDS. 5
" Oh ! that's my cousin Jack, sir Jack Ed-
wards. We are in the same form, and sleep next
beds to each other, and are great friends. He's a
capital good fellow ain't you, Jack ?"
" Well, I'm not up to half as many things as you
are, Bob ; but still I don't want to be a muff."
As we walked on, after leaving the station,
plenty of information was given me as to school
politics, and parties, and progress. I soon knew
that Gibson was first boy, and that Donaldson,
who as second boy had pushed him hard, had been
unlucky enough, in an unthinking moment, to
construe fceminis f lobus in his " Tacitus" by
" female bulls," and was nicknamed accordingly
on the instant, of course ; how the feud between
" the boys" and " Fuller's boys" was as fierce as
ever ; how the latter taunted the others with being
" bone-pickers," from the alleged stinginess of the
school dinners ; how, the morning but one before,
some fourteen or fifteen of Fuller's school had set
on four or five of their opponents, when out for
their morning run on the London road, and would
have thrashed them terribly but for the opportune
arrival of half a dozen of the fifth form, who had
turned the tables ; so that " the boys" though
still inferior in numbers had succeeded in putting
their assailants to flight, and drubbed three or four
of them to their heart's content. All this and
6 DR. NOBLE.
much more I listened to as we walked up the long
street that terminated in the open space before the
old schoolhouse.
Just as we turned off to the left to go to my inn,
instead of advancing straight on to the great gate
of the school-yard, we met a tall, dark, good-look-
ing man, apparently about fifty years old, who was
on the instant most respectfully "capped" by my
two young companions. He nodded kindly to
them, and said as he passed, " You've met with
your friend then. You have till five o'clock.
Don't be late."
This was Dr. Noble, and from the glance 1
had at his countenance, and the kindliness of his
smile and manner to the lads, I was not surprised
to hear how highly and warmly they spoke of
him. " There wasn't anything he couldn't do. He
had been the best bowler in his ' eleven ' when he
was a young man, and he would sometimes take
up a bat now when the school side was practising,
and even Pettit, who was five feet eleven in his
stockings, and could throw a cricket-ball ninety-
five yards, and hit harder ( swipes' than any other
of the boys, couldn't play as the Doctor did.
And then he could fish, and shoot, and ride, and
row, and they knew he had caught five salmon
one day the very last holidays, and they didn't
know how many trout another day, when he was
HOLIDAY RAMBLES. 7
up in Scotland. And he was such a scholar too,
and took such interest in the boys that tried to do
well. And they believed there wasn't a bird
or a beast, or hardly an insect, but he knew all
about them ; and he was so kind, if he saw any
of the boys taking a pleasure in Natural History,
he helped them all he could, and told them they
might go and ask him any questions they liked,
one particular day every week."
" Do you ever ask him anything ?" I said.
" I should think we do, just," was Master
Bob's reply. " Why, this was our day for being
out, only you were coming, and so we went to
the station instead. Almost every Thursday, if
it's fine, we get such glorious rambles in the
country. We have from twelve to five, and some-
times six, and all we have to do is, to ask Dr.
Noble leave to go here or there, as we want.
And then, when we come back, if he happens to
see us, as he often does, he generally asks us
where we have been, and what we have seen, and
explains anything we ask him about, and perhaps
lets us look at some of his books, which have got
just what we want to know in them. Sometimes,
too, he takes some of us out with him, when he
goes out for anything in particular, such as a
plant or an insect. And it's so jolly to go with
him, over hedge and ditch, across the moors, over
8 SCHOOL TRADITIONS.
the brooks by narrow planks or a jump, and then
to be set to look for what he wants, and told how
to know it if we see it. -"Tisn't often though, he
gets time to get out like that. I know I wish
he could go twice as often ; and Fm sure he likes
it as much as we do, and chaffs us like fun if we
lag behind, or are afraid of the thorns, or get into
a bog, or jump into a ditch instead of over it ; or
anything like that."
I found that the Doctor's merits and qualifi-
cations were a subject of unfailing interest to my
young companions, and I had many little in-
stances of his goodness and wisdom, as well as
skill in manly exercises, related to me. Indeed,
the first half-hour of our walk, after I had seen
about my room and dinner at the " Angel," was
almost entirely taken up by the two lads in talking
about their master; and it was not till I had
asked two or three questions about other matters,
that they began to talk freely of the things which
are usually most interesting to schoolboys. I
then heard that " the ghost" still paid its noc-
turnal visits, and it was clear enough to me that,
though they affected to make light of it, they
were much more awed than they liked to acknow-
ledge. So I told them my own recollections. I,
in my time as they were doing now slept in
the "long attic," and, night after night, soon
" TO AKMS." 9
after we had got to bed, the mysterious and as
all the boys thought and felt awful knocking
began. One evening, I told them, old Dr. Tickle-
tail left orders that he should be called the
moment the noises began. One of the boys, there-
fore, who was, indeed, almost a man grown, did
not undress. About nine o'clock, the first sounds
for which we were all listening so intently we
could hear our hearts beat were heard ; the
steady, low beat, beat, beat, as of something softer
than one's fist against a door or wainscoting.
Rice instantly crept noiselessly down to the
Doctor, and in a few minutes up he came, with
poker in his hand ; behind him the second master,
with a long pistol in his ; then the English master,
then the Doctor's man with a lantern, and last
of all Rice himself. The procession went noise-
lessly through the long attic, and in through a
small door at the further end of it, into a long,
narrow, low passage, which ran down the whole
length of the two rooms known as the ' ' long attic "
and the " short attic/' just at our bed-heads. "We
heard their steps, tramp, tramp, along behind us,
and were in agonies of expectation. Not a whisper,
not a breath was heard among all the twenty boys
there. But no pistol was fired; no scuffle was
heard. The low beat we had heard every night
for weeks, and which continued almost up to the
10 THE GHOST.
moment they entered the dark passage, was stilled,
and in a few minutes all returned.
They had searched everywhere, the Doctor
said, but nothing was to be seen. No means
of entry existed, save through the little door they
had gone in at, and the corresponding one on to
the leads, which was quite secure. There was not
a brick loose, nor a hole in the plaster. The
noise, therefore, we had heard so often, and which
had frightened us so much, was probably made
by rats, which, it was well known, often did con-
trive to make extraordinary noises. It could not
be made by a human creature, and of course we
were not so foolish as to suppose it could be made
by anything of a supernatural character.
And so the Doctor left us; of course, more
uneasy and restless than before, particularly as
he had scarcely been gone two minutes, before
the strange, slow knocking began again. I hardly
knew how we got to sleep that night ; but I re-
collect well that we heard "the ghost " as we
all had now got to call it every night, for
weeks together, that year and other years after
it. I told them I had been down the passage my-
self for I didn't like feeling myself a coward
about it and alone, the year I left school ; but
could not find anything to add to, or take from
the report which the Doctor made that memorable
CRICKET. 11
night. What it was, I could not say. It might
be rats ; but I did not believe so. I knew it was
none of my schoolfellows ; and, in one word, it
was altogether unaccountable. They, too, were
convinced that the sounds, which they described
as exactly the same, and recurring at the same
time, and with the same intermissions as were
still so fresh in my recollection, did not proceed
from any of the boys. All alike were much too
uneasy for that ; and, as for rats, how could they
make such noises ? The two lads, however, were
not quite so confident as myself that there was
some natural explanation for the sounds, if only
it could be found out. It was to them clearly
" the ghost."
From "the ghost" they got to cricket, and I had
a full, true, and particular account of the match
between the Elmdon- School Eleven and the Sun-
bury boys, and how the latter had had the great
advantage of getting many a hint, and some
teaching, from the old professional player, Samuel
Balls, who now lived in Sunbury ; how, notwith-
standing that, our Eleven had beat the Sunbury
Eleven with six wickets to go down; mainly
through Pettit's slashing hits and Ned Hayward's
slow bowling, which the Doctor had told him to
try, from having seen Balls play years before, and
thinking that, most likely, the Sunbury lads would
12 RETURNING TO QUARTERS.
be used to what everybody knew was his favourite
style of bowling. So wrapped up were my
companions in their account of the match, and
the exciting incidents in it, that I had to remind
them of the Doctor's caution "not to be late."
It wanted but ten minutes to five, and they had
a long half-mile to go. So, briefly settling with
them that they were to come to me again in the
evening, as soon as they were at liberty, if Dr. Noble
would allow them, I walked on to the " Angel"
at a more leisurely pace than that adopted by E ob
and his cousin.
CHAPTEK II.
At Elmdon still Docwra's Mill The Bridge A Plucky Rat
Old Exploits Bob's Narrative Leaving Elmdon.
ABOUT half-past seven, I saw my young friends
crossing the square from the school-gates to the
inn, and a few seconds after, Bob's sharp rap at
my door announced their readiness to obey my
bidding to " Come in." Finding they had more
than an hour good, we strolled off in the
direction of the river. It was a calm, fair sum-
mer evening, with a few small light clouds hung
in the sky, those in the west tinged with rose-
colour and orange, deepening in hue as the sun
neared the horizon. The old mill, Docwra's mill,
still stood where it used I almost expected
to see the sturdy old Quaker miller cross from
the house to the mill, as if the last twenty-five
years had not been. There was the mill-tail, and
there the back-water, and here the sluice-gates
that the young eels used to surmount in so won-
14 THE BRIDGE.
derful a way ; the first climbers often drying up
and remaining fixed to the wood by their own
slime, and so making an easier pathway for their
successors : there again, the favourite haunt of
the gudgeon shoals ; and there where the back-
water comes into the main stream again the
place where I had caught those four grand perch.
We moved slowly on towards the bridge, and
then, crossing over by it, we turned on to the
Whaldon-road, simply, I believe, because it lay
for some distance along the bank of the stream.
The leap of some fish after a fly, the crossing of
a water-rat, the croak of the water-hen a little
lower down the river, the rapid flight and dip of
the swallow, all were full of interest to the two
boys as well as myself; and many times as they
had noticed these things before, still both had as
much quiet pleasure at their recurrence as if
nay more than as if each had newly occurred
for the first time. They seemed to invest each
actor in this natural scene with a sort of quaint,
familiar personality. " Look there," said Bob,
" there's a big chub by that bush. I know him.
He broke Watson's line one day, and he came
and looked at a grasshopper I put on my hook
the day before yesterday, and then gave a lazy
wallop with his tail, which said as plain as talk-
ing, ( Wouldn't you like me to gobble it down ?
A PLUCKY RAT. 15
But old chub aren't caught with hooks with an
inch of shank to 'em showing/ And away he
went. But he'll have that yellow moth as sure
as a gun. There ! I said so" as the poor moth,
fluttering out of the busk, just touched the water
and was sucked in in an instant. " That's the
water-rat/' he whispered a minute or two after,
" which old Beasley shot at six times with his
pocket pistol ; and he might have shot sixteen
times, only the gamekeeper came up, hearing the
shots, and frightened Mr. Rat by speaking. I
know him by his black fur. Listen to that water-
hen; she has lost two of the little black puff-
balls that she calls young ones, and she's half
calling them, and half screaming about it. Croak
again, old lady. I saw the wicked old pike catch
down one of them."
" Why," I said, " you seem to have a speaking
acquaintance with half the fish, fowl, and four-
footed beasts in the neighbourhood, Bob. Do
they know you as well?"
" No," he replied, " I wish they did ; specially
that old chub and the pike. But I do like to
take notice of fishes and birds and other living
creatures ; and I do so enjoy a walk like this by
the river side, or a good ramble over the hills,
and on to the moor, and through the woods. I
always see something new every time, and the
16 OLD EXPLOITS.
more I see, I think the more I like it, and the
more I want to see and know."
" I am sure it is so with me," said Edwards, or
Jack, as his cousin usually called him, and who
did not talk half so readily and willingly as Bob
did. " I had no idea what pleasure one might
have in a walk till I came here, and Bob and I
got to be ' thick/ and liked to be together as
much as we could. I never knew anything about
all these things till I saw Bob taking notice of
everything, and making the notice he took useful
to him in many ways, such as finding nests, and
catching fish, and getting baits, and lots of other
things. I used to be quite puzzled at first, to know
how he knew things, or found them out. But now,"
he added, " I begin to know a little more than I
used, and every new walk I get with Bob, or espe-
cially with the Doctor, Igethold of somethingfresh."
Much pleased with my young friends, I asked
them several questions about the neighbouring
country, and about many of the old scenes which
had been familiar to me in my own school days,
and which were deeply impressed on my memory
in connexion with some schoolboy incident or
exploit, some birds-nesting, or nutting, or fish-
ing expedition. In this way I had little narra-
tives of what they had seen, one day, in a parti-
cular part of the moor ; another day in Turley
BOB'S NARRATIVE. 17
Wood ; a third day, at the confluence of the little
Whitwater with the larger stream into which it
poured itself a few miles below Elmdon. And I
became so interested in their accounts, that at
last, I fairly became boy enough to ask for an
account of one of their expeditions to which
frequent reference had been made beginning
with their start off from the school, down to their
return late in the afternoon. Bob straightway
began for he was the chief speaker throughout,
and his cousin seldom did more than correct his
inaccuracies, if he showed any, or confirm his
recollection, when appealed to by him for that
purpose. The little narrative I thus listened to
as we returned towards the school, seemed to me
so interesting, that after the lads left me for the
night, I made notes of it, with the intention of
writing it out at length, and as nearly in the
words of my godson and his friend as I could, as
soon as time and opportunity would permit me.
During the next day and part of the third, I saw
as much of my young friends as their school
duties would permit, and more than one similar
account of a walk did I listen to, all of which I
took early opportunities of writing out fairly for
the benefit of some young friends I was much
interested in at home, and who seemed, a few
days after, to listen with great delight as I pro-
c
18 LEAVING ELMDON.
ceeded to read to them what I had written.
Before leaving Elmdon, I fixed that Bob and his
cousin were to come over, if their several fathers
would allow them, to my house, and spend at
least a week of their holidays with me, and see
what, in the way of novelty and interest, the
country in which I lived, and to which they had
never yet paid a visit, would be able to present to
them. I then shook hands with them, and taking
my place in the train, was soon hurried off,
leaving them apparently as much pleased with
their new acquaintance as I was with mine.
CHAPTER III.
Walk the First Loach Hunt Partridge's Nest The Warren-
Snipe's Nest Pewits and Eggs Hagley Beacon The Mere
Ducks and Nest Coots, Waterhens, and Dabchicks.
THE first walk of which Bob gave me an account
was described to me much in the following terms :
" We had had our monthly collections/' said
Bob, "and had worked hard to do the best we could,
and were very glad to get out with a whole after-
noon before us, and the day everything we could
wish for a jolly long ramble. We knew we had
done to the Doctor's satisfaction, for we had seen
him nod and smile two or three times when we
had given answers that pleased him, or construed
a tough bit, and showed we remembered something
he had told us when it came over in regular
lessons. So we did not mind a bit going up to
him as soon as he came out of the school, and ask-
ing him to give us leave to go off for the after-
noon. He gave his permission almost before we
had asked, with the inquiry, ' Where are you
going ?' We told him we were thinking of getting
20 WALK THE FIRST.
up as far as Hagley Common, and home round by
the Fox- Spinney."
" A very nice walk/' said he ; "I wish I could
take it myself."
So we got a good lunch of bread and cheese,
and started off without delay. Well, you know,
we were soon over the bridge, and turned off up
Watery Lane. Jack had never seen a stone loach
then, and so I thought I would show him one.
" Jack," I said to him, " I'm going to catch a fish."
' ' Why, you've no rod, nor even a line or hook
with you ; what's the use of pretending you are
going to fish ?" was Jack's reply.
However, Bob just turned his sleeves up, and
began to turn the stones over that lay in the shal-
low running water which gave its name to the
lane they were going along. Four stones, five,
six were turned up, but with no result. Jack
thought Bob was losing time and shortening their
walk for nothing. However, the next moment he
saw something dart from under the stone Bob had
just moved, and, making a little wake in the shal-
low water, swim straight to another stone, and
vmggle itself underneath it. His curiosity was
now excited, and he jumped eagerly from the dry
bank he was standing on into the wet lane beside
Bob, rather splashing him as he did so.
" Keep back, you clumsy Cockney," cried Bob,
LOACH HUNT. 21
" and don't come and show you are as awkward
with your hands as you are with your feet, and
frighten my fish before I can catch it."
Jack, who knew Bob's rough, good-tempered
way, only laughed at being called " a clumsy
Cockney," and stood still as he was bid. Bob
proceeded to examine the position of the fish under
the fresh stone. He saw there was a little accu-
mulation of sand at the side of the stone opposite
to that at which the loach had gone under it,
so that the little fish could not work its way out
behind, unless he lifted the stone quite up ; so he
tried to turn it up as if he were opening a box lid,
very slowly and gently. As he lifted it in front the
fish tried to get more under it at the back, until
at last Bob saw his time was come, and put his
finger and thumb very cannily in and caught his
loach. Jack was extremely interested at the cap-
ture, and at the manreuvres which had led to it,
and examined the little fish closely.
" Why it has no scales," he said, " and its tail
is much more like an ee?s tail than the tail of a
fish. And look at those things hanging down
from its mouth ; whatever are they for ?"
Bob could not explain the use of that odd-look-
ing appendage, but he told his companion several
other fish had something of the same sort. He
then put the little fish back into the water, before
22 WALK THE FIRST.
Jack had " half satisfied his curiosity/' he said.
So Bob told him to try and catch one for himself,
which, after two or three failures, and a very ex-
citing chase from stone to stone/ he at last suc-
ceeded in doing. The loach now caught was quite
a large one, being nearly or quite four inches long ;
and Jack examined its pale brown sides and eel-
like tail with much delight; soon, however, re-
turning it to the water, and going on after Bob,
who was already some distance in advance.
"I say, old fellow, did you ever see a stickle-
back ?" was his salutation as Jack came up with
him.
"No/' said Jack, " I never did; what's it
like?"
" Well, next time we go out I know a ditch that
is half full of 'em ; and aren't they beautiful fel-
lows just now ? at least some of 'em ; their bellies
all gold, and blue, and violet, and green."
He added several particulars as to their habits
and history which Jack thought very strange, and
he wasn't quite sure Bob wasn't " chaffing " him
when he said that their bright colours left any of
them that happened to get licked in a battle with
a brother stickleback.
Having proceeded about half a mile along
Watery Lane, which, however, had ceased to de-
eerve its name from the time they turned a sharp
PARTRIDGE'S NEST. 23
corner in it, and began to ascend a slight hill, they
turned off along a footpath across several fields.
In one of these fields the path ran close along the
hedge for some distance, the brushwood of which
grew out of a thick bank. Bob's sharp eye de-
tected the twinkle of a much smaller and darker
eye than his own, behind a small decayed stub : a
second glance told him it belonged to a partridge,
though the plumage of the bird resembled the ad-
joining objects so much in colour, that it was by
no means easy to detect her as she sat. Bob
drew back a step or two to join Jack, who was a
little behind him, and said,
" Here's a partridge on her nest, old fellow.
Come and look at her. Gently now."
So Jack went on very gingerly, and with his
eye followed the direction of Bob's finger, but saw
nothing. In vain he looked, peering about, until
at last, the partridge, disliking the continued
loitering and peeping of the lads so near her,
slipped off her nest, and, with a great whirr
making Jack's heart thump with its suddenness
flew off. Then the lads saw she was covering only
five eggs.
"She has more to lay/'" said Bob; "that's
what she was after now. She'll come back as
soon as we have gone, lay her egg, cover her nest
up, with those old oak leaves I dare say, and then
24 WALK THE FIRST.
be off to her business or pleasure with her mate
all the rest of the day."
" Poor creature," said Jack, after a few seconds
of silence, as they walked on ; " it is a pity she
should have so much trouble for nothing/'
" For nothing ?" cried Bob ; " what do you
mean ?"
" Why, that her nest being so close to the foot-
path, it is sure to be found. If nobody else found
it, the first dog that goes by when she's there will
scent it out, and then good-bye to her eggs."
" Oh ! never fear," was Bob's reply ; ' ' nineteen
people out of twenty would never think of looking
for a nest there, and you know if it would be easy
for the twentieth to find it."
" Ah ! yes," answered Jack, " but then the
dogs."
" I tell you what, Jack, it is a very queer thing,
and I don't know how to make it out ; dogs never
do find a sitting partridge. I have known pointers
even, and setters go close by partridges sitting
on their nests, every day almost, and never take
any notice of them. "Why, last year there was a
nest on the bank just opposite our gate at home ;
aud old Don and Sancho, as they ran out when
my father took them out for exercise, almost
poked their noses on to her sometimes, but she
sat quite still, and they never suspected a par-
THE WARREN. 25
tridge was near them. My father said he had
known lots of such cases. It's very funny ; I don't
know, but he says it's "because they don't give
out any scent when they sit so still for a long
time together."
They had now reached the fields which bor-
dered on the common. The common was separated
from the enclosures by a kind of turfen wall,
nearly four feet high, and surmounted by furze
bushes placed all along it, and kept in their place
by the weight of sods laid firmly on, and also by
long pegs. Bob went straight to a sort of stile,
which resembled two short, broadish ladders, with
their lower ends stuck into the ground on either
side the wall, and their upper ends secured to-
gether above the wall, with a sort of projecting
end to hold by when getting over.
" What an odd stile !" thought Jack ; " why
isn't there one like those in the fields ? And
where's the gate ?" Questioning Bob about these
matters, that young gentleman, for answer, bade
him " use his eyes."
" Why, so I have, and I can't see a gate, though
there must be a mile of this queer wall in sight.
And I'm sure one of those other stiles is less
trouble to make, and less awkward to get over."
"Use your eyes, I say," cried Bob; "what
do you call that chap, and that, and that?"
26 WALK THE FIRST.
"Why, they're hares. No, they are not "big
enough
"No, nor yet quite the right colour/' inter-
rupted Bob ; " they're rabbits, and this part of
the common has been inclosed 8000 or 9000
acres, I believe for a warren, and common stiles
and common fences won't do for such customers
as rabbits ; and so, the warreners make such walls
as that, and stiles over them, if they are obliged
to have a stile for a footpath at all ; and they look
well to see that bunny doesn't burrow through
or under the wall, and the furze at top keeps
him from jumping over though I don't think
he is much given to jumping, not half so much
as a hare."
Jack was extremely pleased to see the rabbits
hopping about, much tamer than he had ever
seen them before, and asked his cousin a good
many questions about them. While talking, they
continued walking on over the warren, passing
two or three ponds, much grown up with reeds
and stunted willows, in their way.
" Do you hear that noise ?" cried Bob, all at
once, " something like the buzzing of a great bee ?"
" Something like it," replied Jack. " Why, it
is the buzzing of a bee."
" Where is it, then ?" laughed Bob.
" Somewhere here, in this long grass. It's got
SNIPE HUMMING. 27
entangled somehow, I should think. Ah! you
may laugh ; but I am sure it is a bee."
Jack began to search about very closely in the
grass at the place he thought the sound came
from, which continued to be heard at intervals of
half a minute or so, and lasted several seconds.
Only, somehow, when he stooped down and looked
at the place where he thought he heard it the last
time, it never seemed to be quite there, but a
little further away. Bob stood by, chuckling,
and casting a look up into the sky every minute or
two. At last Jack gave it up in despair, but still
persisted the bee was there, somewhere.
"No," said Bob, "it's up in the air."
" Up in the air ! Nonsense ! What do you
mean ?"
" Why, look there," Bob called out, pointing
up into the sky. " What's that ?"
" Why, a bird to be sure."
" I know : but what is it doing ?"
"Why, flying round. But what a curious way
of flying ! Why, it's coming down, with its wings
moving quite in a different way. Ah ! now it's
rising up again ; and I declare, there's the buzzing
noise, and it seems to me now to come from the
bird."
" Ah ! that's because you are looking in the
right direction now. That's a snipe, and he
28 WALK THE FIRST.
doesn't like our intrusion on his quarters. His
nest is not far from where we are standing ; and
so he flies in that way. Look ! there he comes
down again in his curve, and how fast his wings
go ! And now up, and we hear the buzzing for
the sound takes a few seconds to reach us at this
distance after he has got someway downwards.
He's called c heather-bleater' sometimes, from his
making that sound, and some people call it
' drumming/ It sounds to me much more like
buzzing."
Disturbed by the talking, and the rather loud
tones of Master Bob, three more snipes started
from the swampy ground near the lads, two cf
which immediately began, on reaching a sufficient
height in the air, to emit the buzzing or bleating
sound. The other flew a little distance, and
dropped again to the ground. Bob was watching
this one. As soon as he saw it alight, he said to
his companion, " I'm certain there's a nest here,
and it's not far from that stub."
" What makes you think so?" cried Jack, very
eagerly, all excitement at the thought of finding
an egg so rare as he considered the snipe's.
" Because I think one of those three that just
got out about here is a hen, that was on her nest
till we came up making so much noise, and I
think she flew from close by that/' pointing to
SNIPE'S NEST. 29
the stub. A few moments' search proved he was
right. About a yard from the stub, in a little
hollow on a little spot of dfy ground, lay four
eggs, of a dusky or dark green, spotted and
blotched with dark brown, almost black, their
smaller ends very pointed, and all four sym-
metrically arranged with their smaller ends in the
middle.
" Here we have 'em/' exclaimed Bob.
Jack hastened to him, at the expense of a foot
and leg dipped deep in the swamp, which he did
not think about in his haste.
"Those, snipe's eggs?" he said, when he caught
sight of them. ' ' Why, they are too big ! Such
a little bird as a snipe could never lay such
thumping big eggs as that ! Why, they are as
big as partridges' eggs, and I think bigger."
" However, snipe's eggs they are," replied Bob,
1 ' and two of them we must have for our collec-
tion. You are right enough about the size ; they
are, if anything, bigger than the partridge's egg,
and that too, though the partridge is nearly five
times as heavy as a snipe. I remember seeing
my father weigh some partridges. Some of them
were about 1 Ib. each ; and then I tried how
many snipes would balance one partridge, and I
found five made the scale the partridge was in
go up."
30 WALK THE FIRST.
As the boys passed on over the warren, Jack's
regards were strongly aroused by seeing three or
four rabbits totally black. He supposed some
tame ones must have been turned down there.
Bob said he thought not, but he could not be
sure. While they were discussing the point, the
warrener came in sight, who seemed to recognise
Bob, and to be pleased to see him. To him the
question was referred as to the origin of the black
rabbits. He said that varieties in colour were by
no means uncommon among wild rabbits ; that
black ones were often met with, and different
shades of what he called " sandy," or dun. White
ones, also, with red eyes, were not of very rare
occurrence. Bob recollected having seen two of
that description that had been shot one day near
his home. He thought he heard them called an
Albino variety. The warrener added that there
was also another variety, which was carefully pre-
served on some warrens on account of the greater
value of their skins. The boys understood him
to call rabbits of this variety which, he said, none
but warreners would distinguish from the ordinary
grey rabbit by the name of ' e sprigs," or ' ' silver-
sprigs." Bidding the warrener good-day, they
now left the warren, and struck across the open
common or heath. Here the cries and wheelings
and tumblings over in the air of several birds.
PEWITS. 81
which showed a good deal of white about their
plumage, greatly amused the two walkers. As
they approached a particular part of the common,
the birds redoubled their cries and antics. Some
of them approached within a few yards of the
boys ; others, flying at some little height, all at
once seemed bent on striking against the earth,
in such a headlong way did they precipitate
themselves downwards, and all of them making a
great noise with their wings. Jack knew these
birds, though he had never seen them before in
the earlier part of the year, nor, consequently,
ever heard the strange cries they were now utter-
ing. By their note and name of "pewit/' or "pee-
wit," he knew them well enough, and very keen
he became to find their nests, as soon as he knew
that all this uproar and uneasiness was occasioned
by the intrusion of their two selves on the birds'
breeding domains. Bob told him it was very
doubtful if they would be lucky enough to find
a nest, for he thought the lapwing was cunning
enough to run to some distance from its nest be-
fore commencing all these violent outcries and
flappings about. And he had often seen that the
cries of one were presently the means of bringing
ten or twenty others, (which, the moment before,
were not seen or suspected to be near,) from
different parts round the place where the intruder
32 WALK THE FIRST.
was, and that they would follow him to some
distance : from which he inferred that it did not
necessarily follow, that because the birds paid
such persevering and noisy attention to the visitor,
therefore he must be very near their nests, or
perhaps, any of them. People who observed their
habits closely, as those who made a temporary
living by finding and selling their eggs would be
sure to do, he added, could tell whereabouts the
nests were. And he had heard that some were so
expert in finding them, from mere observation
of the conduct of the birds, that they could walk
straight up to within a few feet even of the eggs
they were seeking.
The boys had now nearly reached the point
which Bob had proposed as the limit of their
walk. This was the highest point of the com-
mon, and indeed in the whole district for many
miles round. It was called Hagley Beacon, and
they had often heard, not only that the materials
for a great blaze had been carefully kept there
in readiness to be set fire to, when people's
thoughts were full of a French landing a good
many years ago ; but that one night it actually
was set blazing, to the great discomfort of the
good people of Elmdon and the neighbourhood.
The Beacon watcher said it was a half idiot lad, a
nephew of his, that he had with him for company,
BRITISH CAMP. 33
had done it while his back was turned; but
many people, who knew he had been at the "Red
Lion" almost all the afternoon, thought it was
just as likely to have been himself. At all
events, he was either asleep or drunk, and so he
was not allowed to return to his post after the
inquiry which took place next day ; for half the
country had been alarmed, and Elmdon, by mid-
night, had been crowded by the Militia and Yeo-
manry hurrying in from the whole country-side.
But there was an object of greater interest than
the mere site of a beacon, for all the summit of
the hill was enclosed by a circular trench or
mound. In fact, it was one of the most perfect
British camps to be met with anywhere about;
and the size of the stones, which had made the
substratum of the earthwork, showed that it had
been a place of great strength, and probably, im-
portance. In many parts, little biit the stones
was now left, all utterly irregular in shape, and
of every size, from mere pebbles to masses weigh-
ing some tons : the earth that had once covered
them having been loosened and carried away by
the frosts and storms of twenty centuries. But
still, there lay the camp perfect in outline, and
many other remains of earthworks or fortifica-
tions stretching off in two directions to a con-
siderable distance. The cousins were just leaving
D
84 WALK THE FIRST.
that part of the common where the Pewits had
so belabored them with noisy cries and wheelings,
intending to pay a brief visit to the camp, when
Bob caught Jack hastily by the arm, exclaiming
at the same moment, e( Stop, I say, stop ;" and
half pushing his friend over backwards, as he
spoke. " Why, what's the matter?" inquired
Edwards. " You were just going to squash those
beauties with your great clumsy foot," he said,
pointing to the ground at Jack's feet, where lay
three of the unhoped, almost unlooked-for eggs of
the pewit, all arranged points inwards, as was the
case with the snipe's eggs. Much rejoicing in
this treasure-trove they pressed onwards to the
camp, which Jack surveyed with great interest
and a vast desire to have unlimited explanation
available. His cousin told him there were many
other remains in the district, of its ancient British
inhabitants; tumuli, earthwork circles, standing
stones, a stone circle nearly perfect, and the site
of a British settlement or village, all of which
they might go to see as opportunity offered ; and,
besides which, in the museum, there was a toler-
ably perfect collection of British antiquities, some
of them found near the camps or circles in the
district, but not a few taken out of different
tumuli or barrows which had been opened in two
or three different parts of the very common they
THE MERE. 35
now were on. Hearing this, Jack was for nothing
less than buying a couple of spades as soon as
they got back, and coming their very next holi-
day to dig on their own account. He was sure
they might find some curious and interesting
things within the ring of the camp ; and if not,
those three barrows, about 200 yards east of it,
he was sure, would well repay their labour. Bob
said he thought Jack was proposing what would
be work enough for half a dozen men for as many
days ; and besides, that leave must be asked, not
only of the Doctor, but of the Lord of the Manor,
before any digging or excavation could take place.
Yielding his plans to necessity with some unwil-
lingness, Edwards followed his companion's steps,
which where now bent in the direction of Fox
Spinney. In order to reach the wood so called,
they had to pass partly along and partly through
a sort of marsh, one part of which was a good
deal grown up with alders and willows ; another
part was a complete morass ; and bordering this
was a large pond or mere, the water around
more than half the circuit of which was com-
pletely grown up with reeds and flags and bul-
rushes. As they came fairly in sight of the open
water though still almost concealed themselves
Bob espied about a score of ducks swimming
quietly about near the middle. He pointed them
36 WALK THE FIRST.
out to Jack, who had never seen wild ducks
before, except on the wing occasionally in the
winter time, or at the poulterers' shops. The
lads were near enough, not simply to count up
nineteen birds in all, but to make out that four-
teen were mallards, two ducks, and three much
smaller birds. Jack wondered to see so many
drakes and so few ducks, and inquired what the
smaller fellows were. He was informed that the
missing ducks were sitting, somewhere among the
reeds, no doubt; and that the small birds were
teal. Bob then pointed out a number of other
birds of different sorts, passing in and out among
the flags and bulrushes, or swimming and diving
at no great distance from them. The black birds
about as big as pigeons, which kept flirting their
tails as they swam, showing two or three white
feathers in them as they did so, Jack recognised
as water-hens. The much larger black birds with
white oval marks on their foreheads, where the
water-hen has similar shaped reddish marks, were
unknown to him. Bob told him they were coots.
And those little chaps more out in the open, who
disappeared and reappeared in their incessant
divings as if they had been hatched and equipped
for nothing else, he said, were little grebes, or
dabchicks. And very amusing little fellows they
seemed to be. In his excitement at watching one
WILD DUCK'S NEST. 8?
of them in particular, which, in his repeated
divings, had come much closer than the rest to
the spot, Jack took a step forward, and uttered a
hasty exclamation as his foot sunk in a soft place,
and he himself staggered forward in the attempt
to save a fall. Disturbed by the cry, the mallards
all drew together with their heads up, the coots
and moorhens went scudding along towards the
covert of the flags, and Jack's heart gave a great
thump as a sudden rustling and flapping ensued
almost under his very nose. He had, in fact,
nearly fallen into a duck's nest, and the old
lady, who had sat very quietly as long as the two
visitors kept themselves quiet, now thought it
was time to get out of the way of so unceremo-
nious an intruder, and hastily took flight. This
was the signal for the mallards to do the same,
for the dabchicks to dive, and for the other birds,
with croaks and low cries, to conceal themselves
among the water-plants. Jack's regret at put-
ting an end to a scene which had delighted him
so much, was a little lessened by the thought, that
at least his awkwardness had given them the
opportunity of adding a couple of wild duck's
eggs to their stock. But to this appropriation
Bob would by no means consent. He said he
knew the gamekeeper would not like them to take
these eggs, and that he thought it would be as
38 WALK THE FIRST.
wrong to take them, at least without leave, as it
would eggs from a partridge's or pheasant's nest ;
and that therefore they certainly ought not to
think of it. Jack was not quite convinced, but
gave up the point without further contest. Bob,
however, completed his conquest by adding, that
he knew the gamekeeper trusted to his honour
not to take any of the eggs he had named ; and
that even if it were not so, he should not like to
do what he knew he, the gamekeeper, would not
like ; as he had been very kind to him often, in
giving him several eggs that otherwise he might
not have easily got.
Part of this conversation took place as they
passed through a little thicket, just before they
got to the stile that gave admission to the foot-
path through the wood. It so happened that the
gamekeeper had been at the edge of the wood
trying to get a magpie, which had nested in a tree
just within the fence, when the flight of the ducks
warned him there was some alarm in the marsh.
He walked on, therefore, towards a corner from
which he could see over part of the marsh, and
had just got there as the boys came past. He
immediately came forward and spoke very civilly
and kindly to Bob, whom he knew well, and
asked what eggs they were talking about. Bob
told him of Jack's nearly floundering into a
WILD DUCKS' EGGS. 89
duck's nest, and how lie had thought he might
very well have a couple of the eggs, until he,
Bob, had said they ought not. The keeper said
they should not be disappointed, as there was
never a year when he did not get a few wild ducks'
eggs that were not hatched; and he would be
sure and save them a couple during the present
season ; and then, adding a few words about
"Master Robert always acting like a gentle-
man," he asked them to go on with him to the
boat-house, and he would take them to seek some
of the coots' nests and those of the other birds
they had observed on the water; stating that
they would have no difficulty in finding several
of either sort. Edwards was in ecstasies at the
thought ; but Bob, thanking the keeper very
heartily for his kind offer, asked him first to tell
them what o'clock it was ; for he was afraid they
had taken so much time in the warren, and on
the common, and in the marsh, that they would
have little more than enough left to enable them to
get home in good time, and make themselves clean
and tidy for roll-call. It was even so ; and with
a feeling of no little disappointment the lads
thanked the kind keeper once more, and prepared
to return to the school.
As they turned to leave him, the keeper asked
them when they would next be able to get up so far.
40 WALK THE FIRST.
Bob thought for a minute, and then, with a
sort of shout, exclaimed, " Why, Monday is
Founder's Day, and we always have a holiday
then. Will you be busy on Monday ?" he added,
looking up at the keeper.
" No," he answered ; " what time can you be
here ?"
" Oh ! by one o'clock, at all events ; if that
will suit you."
" Very well, then. I'll be at this stile about
one o'clock ; and it is very likely I shall be able
to show you something in the woods, too, if you
have time."
The two boys now wished him good afternoon
with more thanks, and set off at a good pace
homewards. They had plenty of time to remove
all traces of water and bog, and presented them-
selves, perfectly clean and neat in hair and dress,
when the bell summoned them to evening roll-call
and their supper.
CHAPTER IV.
Walk the Second Robert Banks Dabcliicks, Coots, Water-
hens, Reed-warblers, their Nests and Eggs.
FRIDAY and Saturday passed, with their routine
of school tasks and duties; Sunday, too, passed,
with its sermon from Dr. Noble, which almost all
the elder lads looked to with interest, and of which
not a few among them tried to make a sort of
sketch, to be looked at in after days. And then
came Monday. The morning was dull, and our
two young friends were quite disposed to feel
assured that it would rain, and that their excur-
sion on which they were reckoning so much
would fall through. However, the clouds broke
away before they were liberated from the two
hours' work which was required of them on occa-
sion of any such holiday as the present. The
time that must elapse before they could set off to
the appointed place was spent by them in neatly
affixing the eggs they had obtained in their last
walk to cards with strong gum-water, and adding
42 WALK THE SECOND.
a name-label to each card, written in a very neat
and methodical manner by Bob. The eggs in
question had been very carefully blown, and dried,
at the first leisure time after being brought safely
home; and now, when they were carefully ad-
justed to their proper places, they were set safely
aside, for the gum to harden, until their owners'
return, when they would be at once inducted into
their proper place in the collection ; which was
now found to number nearly one hundred eggs,
belonging to nearly sixty different species of birds :
for they had no duplicate specimens of some seven
or eight kinds of eggs.
In their eagerness to lose no time, when once
they were at liberty to set out for Dr. Noble
made no scruple of giving them the required per-
mission they arrived at the stile fully a quarter
of an hour before the gamekeeper. Bob filled
up the interval by telling Jack something about
that person. His name, he said, was Robert
Banks. He was born at the place where Mr.
Benson (BoVs father) lived, and he had spent his
youth there; and, as a lad, he had often been
made useful by Mr. Benson's gamekeeper in
catching rabbits, tending the dogs and the ferrets,
carrying the gamebag, and marking for the gentle-
men who were out shooting, and so on. When
about eighteen years old he had been induced by
ROBERT BANKS. 43
an uncle, who was master of a coasting vessel, to
go to sea. He had spent nearly two years on
board a coaster and then shipped in an Indiaman,
in which he had made three or four voyages, con-
ducting himself to the entire satisfaction of his
officers, who had already taken care to advance
him as far as his age would permit. And as he
had taken pains to keep up what he had learnt at
school, and to improve himself by reading, they
had not only helped him by putting useful books
in his way, but had promised him their interest to
obtain him a higher position than that of a com-
mon seaman whenever an opportunity might offer.
" He was in the ship Samarang" Bob con-
tinued, " homeward bound, about fifteen years
ago, and my uncle Thomas was a passenger in her
that same voyage. A violent storm came on, and
they were sadly tossed about for the greater part
of two days. Just as they thought the worst of
it was over, and that their good ship which had
behaved splendidly had weathered it, a tremen-
dous thunderstorm came on, and an awful flash of
lightning struck her. Her mainmast was com-
pletely shivered and her foremast damaged, and
she speedily became unmanageable. The storm,
though much abated, was still violent enough to
make their danger very great. The wreck still
hampered them ; they had lost several of the crew
44 WALK THE SECOND.
by the lightning and the fall of the mast ; the sea
was very high, and the wind violent. Robert Banks
stood by his captain and the second officer (the
others were lost,) nobly ; and by his influence with
the crew, and his exertions, brought most of the
men, who, from the violence of the shock, believed
nothing less than that the vessel was instantly
about to founder, and were half helpless with con-
sternation, to second him in obeying their officers'
orders. They were thus enabled, at last, to cut
away the hamper ; and eventually the storm con-
tinuing most providentially to subside to get her
before the wind; but not before she had so strained
herself in her rollings as to have sprung at least
one serious leak. It was not till the next day
that the captain was able to ascertain his position,
and he then found that, if he could succeed in
keeping afloat, and could make his course a little
more to the southward, he might have a fair
chance of falling in with some home-bound ship
or other, or possibly even reach a port. How-
ever, neither of these contingencies was to be
realized: for that night, the watch being utterly
exhausted by the fatigues of the storm and their
subsequent spells of pumping, betrayed their charge
and fell asleep ; and it was only when Banks un-
able to sleep from the pain of two ribs which he had
got broken in his exertions the previous day, but
ROBERT BANKS. 45
had said nothing about came on deck, that the
alarm of " Breakers a-head ! " was given ; and
that too late to save the ship. However, every
effort was made to prepare for the inevitable shock,
and by great good fortune the ship was made to
take the reef, where there was a little break in the
water, bows on, and there she remained firmly
fixed ; and it appeared that, if only it continued
calm, she was not likely to be much damaged at
present. The day was now eagerly looked for,
and at length it came ; but alas ! at the same time
came signs which all understood but too well. A
dark bank was seen rising, as it were, out of the
sea, to the northward ; the swell rose longer and
higher; and it was evident another gale was
brewing. On the other side, at a distance of
apparently two or three miles, lay what seemed to
be an island of some extent ; but how were they to
get there? Only one of their remaining boats
was undamaged, and that the smallest : two having
been carried away bodily in the fall of the masts.
They had very little time to prepare. Already
the surf struck them harder blows, and made the
poor ship quiver throughout. Banks tried to
induce the sailors to help him in constructing a
raft ; but, worn out and despairing, they had got
to the spirit hold, and would no longer listen to
reason. Three or four endeavoured to lower the
46 WALK THE SECOND.
remaining boat, and the captain and his officer
exerted themselves in making every preparation
which could bethought of, and time would permit.
Meanwhile, Banks and my uncle did what they
could in lashing together some planks and spars,
according to a plan Banks had often thought of
in his leisure hours. He feared, if the gale came
on as rapidly as he expected, the boat would not
live, even if the half-dozen men who were still
sober could succeed in getting her safely away
from the ship ; and, though the chance with the
raft was not much better, he said, at all events,
the boat would be less overloaded if one or two
tried to stick by the raft. My uncle was deter-
mined te would stay with Banks, and the end
came sooner than even he expected. The surf
struck the ship with increasing violence ; a few of
these heavier blows laid her almost broadside on,
and then she heeled over so far that it was impos-
sible any longer to walk on the deck. The boat
fortunately floated, as did the raft. Banks, who
had expected something of the sort, was safe on it,
when he saw my uncle struggling in the water
near. To leap in and help him to reach the raft
was a work of few seconds, and in a moment more
he caught one of the ship's boys who was floating
by senseless. The next thing he observed was
that half a dozen of the crew, half-sobered by
ROBERT BANKS. 47
terror, flung themselves into the boat, where the
captain, second officer, and five sober men already
were, and it was swamped or upset in an instant.
The same moment a terrific sea struck the ship,
and fell over on the struggling men, appearing to
overwhelm them instantaneously : for only one of
them was ever seen again, and that only for a
second. The same sea shook the raft and tried its
lashings severely, but also gave it an impulse in a
shoreward direction. Banks, after casting an
anxious look round to see if he could rescue any-
body else, seized the oars he had provided and
lashed securely, and, with the help of the wind,
which, though strong and waxing stronger, was in
the right direction, and the protection which the
reef afforded behind them by breaking the rollers,
succeeded in guiding and impelling his frail vessel
to within a short distance of the shore. Here,
however, one of the lashings of the raft sorely
tried by the increasing agitation of the waters
gave way, and all of them, after a short and vain
attempt to repair damages, were thrown amid the
foaming waters. Banks and my uncle struck out,
the former still taking charge of the boy, who had
only partially recovered his consciousness, but
whom he had succeeded in lashing to a spar ; and
after a short but terrible struggle found them-
selves safe on land. Once on the shore, Banks'
48 WALK THE SECOND.
strength failed him at once. Fatigue, and bodily
injury and pain, together with the excitement of
this hard struggle and escape, had proved too
strong for even his spirit and strength, and he fell
helpless before he had actually got beyond the reach
of the waves ; and my uncle, who, though much
exhausted, had still some strength left, had to drag
both him and the boy sufficiently high on the
beach to be out of the way of the surging billows."
" But here he comes himself," exclaimed Bob,
" and you must ask him to tell you all the rest of
it himself, some day when he has nothing better
to do ; and then you will hear things that will
make you like him even more than I see you are
already inclined to do."
The gamekeeper now came up with the key of
the boat-house in his hand, and after saying he
hoped they had not been waiting long, took the
path which led to the boat-house at the other side
of the mere, where the water was deep. Once
there, they were not long in embarking, and Bob
showed it was not the first time he had been in a
boat, by taking an oar and pulling in very fair
style. There were about the same number of
mallards and teal as there had been on their pre-
vious visit, and they very soon took flight ; coming
in sight again, however, once or twice, as if to
reconnoitre, and then, as it seemed, flying away
THE BOAT. 49
to a distance. There was also great commotion
among the coots and moorhens, and in a minute
or two not one was to be seen; though their
notes were still heard from time to time from
among the reeds. After rowing a short distance,
Bob and the keeper, as if by mutual under-
standing, drew in their oars, and suffered the
boat to advance by the impulse they had already
given it. In this way, when the boat had passed
on four or five times her own length, and was now
moving very slowly and gently, they knew that if
they kept themselves very motionless and silent
they might approach within a very short distance
of the dabchicks ; and Jack was intensely inte-
rested in watching these little divers sinking them-
selves gradually in the water, as the boat came
within a few yards of them, until at last the water
almost covered their backs ; and then, with a
motion so quick as to baffle the eye, under they
went ; coming up again within a few yards, watch-
fully ready to repeat the evolution if it seemed
necessary. As long as the party in the boat
remained quite still, a dozen of these little birds
might be seen within gunshot ; the moment the
oars were resumed all disappeared as if by magic.
The keeper now directed the boat to a part of the
mere where some waterplants showed themselves
at the surface of the water. Here Jack, who was
E
50 WALK THE SECOND.
in the bows of the boat, saw several objects which
seemed to him to be shapeless masses of weed.
The keeper directed his course so as to come within
reach of one of these, arid told Bob to go forward
and see what it contained. Master Bob was rather
at a loss here, and said
" Why, it's nothing but weeds, Robert."
Banks replied with a smile. " Lift off those
weeds which lie at the top, Master Robert."
Master Robert did so, and to his surprise no
less than six eggs, rather long in proportion to
their width, and as large at the " little," as at the
a big" end, greeted his eyes. But what infi-
nitely perplexed him was that no two of them
were exactly alike in colour. One was nearly
white, and another was of a dirty red colour,
something resembling the stain left by blood on
white paper two or three days after its application,
only dirtier and muddier. The other eggs were of
shades intermediate between those of these two.
" Why, what are they ?" he asked, in a doubting
tone ; " I thought they had been dabchicks ; but
dabchicks' eggs, I know are white."
" So were these, Master Robert, when the bird
laid them. And one, you see, is still nearly white
That is the egg last laid ; and that darkest is the
one she laid first. I suppose it's the weeds she
lays on them, whenever she leaves the nest, that
DABCHICK'S NEST. 51
colour them. I don't know how else it is done.
But I do know that I hardly ever saw a nest, out
of all the hundreds I have seen here, with the
eggs left uncovered. Why, look yonder " point-
ing to two or three nests about fifty yards further
on " there is a bird now pecking away about
her nest, as if her life depended on it. She's
covering her eggs, and if we move on you'll see
her dip into the water and dive away. Some
folks say they sit a-top of weeds and all ; but, I
must say, I don't think they do. It is my belief
they have the weeds laid ready just round the
nest, and put them on when they want to go away
for a bit."
Certainly, the lads thought they saw, not only
the bird pointed out by the keeper, but several
others, go through exactly the process he had
described, previous to leaving their nests as the
boat approached; and they were quite ready to
think as he thought. Bob asked a great many
questions about these curious little birds, and got
the following information from the keeper : They
made their appearance usually about the middle of
April. Sometimes a pair or two appeared first,
and then, a few days after, the rest, to the number
of twenty-five or thirty pairs. They were occa-
sionally seen on the wing during a week or two
after their arrival. Banks believed it was only
52 WALK THE SECOND.
the males. Sometimes while flying their flight
being always in circles over the water, very rapid,
and at no great height above it they uttered a
note, which might be partly imitated by drawing
a stick rapidly over wooden palings. Their
departure in the autumn was as sudden and mys-
terious as their arrival in spring ; and where they
went to, and how they went, with their short
wings, and apparent disinclination to use them,
he really could not tell. He had heard folks say
that a few might always be found in the marshes
near the sea, in winter time ; but how they got
there he could not imagine.
Leaving this part of the mere, the boat was
now directed to a quarter where the water was
shallower, and where, every here and there, little
grassy knolls stood out amid the water, and a few
willow stubs were seen growing. Here, three or
four water-hens' nests were discovered in as many
minutes, containing from three up to half a score
eggs. These nests were constructed of a large
quantity of dry materials, and seemed very snug
and warm, and quite secure from wet ; very dif-
ferent from the dabchicks' nests, which were
merely piles of wet weeds supported on the sur-
face of the water, but so little raised above it that
the eggs were wet, and the slightest pressure of a
finger caused the water to rise rapidly in them ;
WATER-HENS' AND COOTS' NESTS. 53
so much so, that the lads wondered how eggs, so
constantly kept wet, could ever contrive to get
hatched.
After having satisfied their curiosity among
these nests and taken the eggs they wanted, they
proceeded to a part of the mere where the reeds and
flags grew pretty close and made a thickish cover.
Here they soon found a couple of coots' nests ;
large and strong structures built of withered flags
and reeds, and one of them founded on a pile of
similar materials reaching to the bottom, where
the watei was eighteen inches deep. The game-
keeper told them some of these nests were so
strongly built as to support a man sitting down
upon them. Here again they secured the eggs
they wished to have, and were beginning to think
they had got all the varieties they had any right
to expect, when the keeper drew their attention
to a little bird whose notes, in various places
among the reeds, were almost literally incessant,
and asked if they knew it and had got its eggs in
their collection. Bob listened for a moment and
asked if it were not the sedge bird.
" That may be the name of the bird, sir/'
answered the keeper, "but I have generally
heard it called the reed-chat.* You may
find many of their nests among these reeds,
* The bird which Banks meant is called the reed-warbler.
54 WALK THE SECOND.
and very beautiful., and wonderful for contrivance
they are."
So speaking, he pushed more in among the
reeds, and in a few seconds, the boys had the
delight of seeing a nest perfectly new to both of
them. It was attached to the stems of five sepa-
rate reeds rather high up them was composed
of the flowering tops of the reeds, and was made
very deep indeed for its size. Noticing this par-
ticular, the gamekeeper said he thought it might
be to prevent the eggs or young ones tumbling
out when the wind blew very strongly.
" For sometimes," he said, "the reeds bent down
so much before the wind, it was wonderful how
the eggs remained in at all."
Before they left the reed-bed they had found
eight or ten of these nests, though at the expense
of very wet feet and legs; for they found they
could get about so much better on foot than in
the boat. Nothing would content Bob but cut-
ting the reeds supporting one of the nests in order
to take it bodily home for Dr. Noble, who, he
thought, would be pleased to see it.
They now returned to the boat-house, highly
delighted with their expedition on the mere.
Leaving the boat-house, the keeper asked them if
they had time to go into the wood with him.
Ascertaining from him what o'clock it was, they
JAY'S NEST. 55
found they had time enough, if they did not loiter
by the way. So off they started at a brisk pace.
Soon after they entered the wood, the keeper
asked them if they wanted any jay's eggs, as he
had shot a pair of jays which had built in a low
tree not far from where they now were.
Bob replied he had some, which he had obtained
last year. Jack, however, who from the delight
and success of the last and the present walk, was
keener than ever to add to his stores of country
lore and natural- history knowledge, begged Banks
to take him to see the nest just as it was. Ac-
cordingly, they turned out of the " ride " they
were now walking rapidly along, and presently
came under what Jack thought in his cursory
observation of it was a random collection of
loose sticks; till Bob and the keeper both assured
him it was a genuine jay's nest.
"Why, I can see daylight through it," he
exclaimed.
" Yes, and the eggs too, very likely," Bob
added.
Nothing would content Jack but to see one or
two of the eggs ; in fact, he wanted to get a look
into the nest from above as well as from below ;
but he had never yet tried to climb, and was
rather shy of making the attempt. However,
Bob, who had a pretty good idea of what was
56 WALK THE SECOND.
passing in his cousin's mind, told him the best
way of seeing the eggs was by getting up to the
nest himself, and showed him how it easily might
be done, by getting up an adjoining tree, and
walking along one of its branches, which extended
horizontally very near the nest ; and which, he
said, was quite strong enough to bear Jack's
weight without breaking, or even bending much.
" And there is another," he said, ' ' about a yard
higher, you can hold by."
Jack began his climb at once, and having good
strong arms and hands, and a steady head, was
soon upon the bough pointed out to him by his
companion, and carefully sidling along it towards
the nest. As it bent and wavered with his weight
and movements, he did not feel quite so comfort-
able as when climbing up the stiff tree stem ; but,
determined not to be beat, after a moment's pause
to steady himself, he went on again; and, in a second
or two, had the pleasure of finding that by kneel
ing on the bough he had, so far, walked on, grasp-
ing the branch above very firmly with his right
hand, he could not only reach the eggs, but see
them as they laid not half a yard from his eyes.
He was bent upon having a memorial of this, his
first bird's-nest reached by climbing ; but how to
bring away the eggs, that was the question.
To put them in his pockets he knew would
JAY'S EGGS. 57
ensure a disagreeable smash. His cap had fallen
off in his ascent ; and besides, if it had been still
on his head, he thought it would be doubtful if
the eggs would travel very safely on the top of his
head as he scrambled down again. He was in
utter perplexity. They would break if he dropped
them : even if he asked Bob to catch them, their
fate would probably be no better. How was he to
contrive ? Bob called to him to make haste and
come down, as their time was short. In reply he
mentioned his dilemma.
" Why, lad, what was your mouth made for?"
was Bob's laughing solution of the difficulty.
And presently, with an egg safe in each cheek,
Jack commenced, and in safety completed, his
descent to the ground.
The three now pressed on rapidly in the direc-
tion they were pursuing before this episode of the
jay's nest, and after about ten minutes' walk they
stopped near an ash tree of no very great size. It
appeared the keeper had been speaking to Bob on
the subject of their present quest, for pointing to
a place in the tree, about eight feet from the
ground, whence a branch appeared to have fallen
he said,
< There's the hole, sir."
A.nd a hole there was, certainly, nearly circular,
and less than two inches in diameter.
58 WALK THE SECOND.
" What's in it ?" asked Jack, as soon as he per-
ceived it.
" Oh ! the nest of a very curious bird, and one
moreover whose eggs, from a nasty habit the bird
has of laying them in holes in trees, are not easy
for boys to get. Don't you think you could get
your hand in there, Jack ? It's a bit smaller
than mine ; and Banks here will hold you up ;
wont you, Banks ?"
" Certainly, sir, with all the pleasure in life,"
replied Banks ; and accordingly Jack was hoisted
up by the keeper, so effectually that his face was
nearly on a level with the hole. Naturally enough
he applied his eye to it to see if he could make
out anything of the interior. He had scarcely
done so, however, before he drew it back so sud-
denly, and with such a jerk, that if Banks had not
been prepared for something of the sort, Jack
would have thrown himself, and possibly his
bearer as well, headlong down.
" Let me down, Mr. Banks, let me down," he
cried ; ' ' there's a snake in the hole."
Bob enjoyed the success attending his trick (for
on hearing from the keeper what he had got to
show them in the wood, he had plotted this sur-
prise for his cousin) to such a degree that he could
hardly repress his roars of laughter. Jack felt his
dignity affronted, and declared there was a snake.
SNAKEBIRD'S NEST. 59
It had hissed fearfully as he put his eye to the
hole.
" Snake or no snake, let me get up, Banks,"
said Bob; and up he mounted, in his turn, on
Banks's shoulder. The hissing was audible
enough, and sounded formidable enough, cer-
tainly : but Bob was not deterred. As he had
said, his hand was much too large to get into the
hole ; but the kind gamekeeper had foreseen this
difficulty, and provided against it, by using a very
fine saw and taking out a piece of the tree in-
deed it was little more than bark, so much decayed
was the trunk at a little distance from the aper-
ture ; and so neatly that, when replaced, the tree
appeared untouched. He had fixed a screw into
this which served as a sort of handle. Taking
hold of this screw, the severed piece of wood came
out, and there was an irregular oval hole big
enough for Bob to put his hand and arm in.
No sooner did this kind of trap-door begin to
open than a bird darted out of the original
hole, and flew to a tree at some little dis-
tance. Jack was looking for the snake : the
flight of the bird rather staggered him in
his certainty that there was a snake ; for a
living snake and a living bird in the same
hole were scarcely compatible. The next mo-
ment Bob exclaimed,
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" Six eggs such beauties ! And no snake,
Jack," he added the moment after.
Two of the eggs were in his mouth, the trap-
door replaced, and himself on 'the ground before
his cousin had quite recovered himself. However,
the sight of the eggs two delicate, smooth, white
shining eggs speedily set him right.
" What beauties ! What are they ?" he cried.
" Snake's eggs, to be sure," Bob answered :
' ' didn't you see the snake fly out ?"
" Nonsense ; but what are they ?"
The keeper interposed :
" We country folk often call it 'snakebird,'
Master Edwards, because of its hissing noise. It
always makes that noise when disturbed on its
nest ; and it seems no ways ready to leave its nest
either/' he concluded.
" But what other name has it ?" demanded Jack.
" Oh, two or three more," said Bob. Some-
times it's called cuckoo's mate, or cuckoo's com-
panion ; and sometimes long-tongue and some-
times emmet-hunter. But its book name, and
ordinary name, is wryneck, from the peculiar
plumage of its neck, which gives that part of its
body a wry or twisted appearance."
" What's its nest like ?" interposed Jack.
" Oh, only a little rotten wood, which it pecks
down from the decayed inside of the tree."
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"Why is it called by so many names ?" was
the next question.
"It is called cuckoo's mate, because it usually
appears about the same time as the cuckoo, and
makes its presence known, as the cuckoo does, by
a very peculiar note. It is called long-tongue,
because its tongue is immensely long, and seems
to be used mainly in taking its food. It is called
emmet-hunter, because ants or emmets form a
considerable portion of its food ; and people who
have had them in confinement, say it is a very
curious sight to see them feeding, if supplied with
a portion of an ant-hill and its teeming inhabitants.
The tongue is thrust out and drawn back with
wonderful quickness, and every time an ant, or
one of the eggs, is drawn in and swallowed. The
eye can't keep pace with the speed at which the
tongue moves. Look, there she is again/ ' added
Bob. " There, climbing up that tree. Look, on
the trunk, like walking up it. There, she has
just twisted out of sight."
Jack, however, soon caught sight of her again,
and observed that she did not climb nearly as
well as the creeper, with which he was acquainted,
and that, as she moved about the tree, she did
not seem to make any use of her tail, as the
creeper and woodpeckers do.
It was now time for our young friends to move
62 WALK THE SECOND.
off homewards with all speed. So, opening their
egg-case, which Bob had with some ingenuity con-
structed out of an old botanical case, and seeing
to the safe packing of all their new treasures,
eking out their cotton wool with some fine moss,
they wished the gamekeeper good afternoon, and
started off at a good rapid trot ; Bob taking especial
care of his reed- warbler's nest for the Doctor, and
Jack with the egg-box slung over his shoulder.
They reached school in capital time, met the Doctor
as they neared the great gate, stopped to touch their
caps, and were passing on, when he asked, "What
are your treasures ? where have you been ?"
" Oh, sir, we have been to the mere, as we asked
leave to do, and came home through the Fox Spin-
ney; and we have got eggs of the water-hen, coot,
dabchick, reed-warbler, and wryneck, besides two
jay's eggs, that Edwards wanted. And this nest
it was the prettiest of all we saw we have brought
for you, sir, in case you might like to see it."
The Doctor thanked them very kindly, and
took the nest with evident pleasure, not only be-
cause it was really curious and beautiful, but
because he liked his pupils to feel and show good-
will towards him. Bidding them make haste and
get on dry things, he passed on to his house, and
they to their quarters, and were quite ready in
time for roll-call.
CHAPTER V.
Walk the Third Eel-hooks Setting-lines Kingfisher's Nest-
Dipper and Nest Wilson's Filmy Fern Eel, Perch, and
Trout caught.
ON the following Thursday, the two boys again
applied for and obtained permission to take one of
their lengthened rambles. Much of their playtime
in the intervening days had been pleasantly filled
up with careful preparation and mounting of the
acquisitions of the last excursion; and another
portion had been occupied with discussions as to
the direction and objects of their next walk, which
they fixed for Thursday afternoon, if the day were
suitable.
Bob thought they might vary the interest by
having an afternoon's fishing. Jack, however,
was so much taken up with his new experiences as
to the habits and haunts of birds, that he begged
hard for another nesting expedition. It was at
length settled that they would try and combine
both pursuits. Bob said he had heard the
gamekeeper say that dippers or water-ousels were
common in the upper part of the streams feeding
64 WALK THE THIKD.
the Whitwater, as well as often to be seen along
that stream itself; that they had no eggs of the
bird in question, and that they could at least look
for a nest : though he did not think, from what he
knew of the birds' nesting places, that they were
very likely to fall in with one, except by the
merest accident. He proposed, therefore, that
they should go up Watery-lane, and turn off
up Turley-lane, as if going through Fox Spinney ;
but, instead of leaving the lane for the wood, to
keep along it until they came to the bridge over
the Whitwater. Arrived at this point, they were
according to his plan to go a little way up the
brook that ran out of the mere (through part of
Fox Spinney) into the Whitwater near the bridge,
until they could find a place to get across it.
Once over the brook, they were to strike across
to the river, and proceed to set some lines, baited
with large worms and small fish, for the chance of
catching some eels, and possibly a trout or two, or
a large chub. This done, they would ascend the
stream and take their chance of finding, either on
it, or one of its feeders from the heights of
Hagley Common and Turley Moor, the eggs they
were in quest of. Jack thought the suggestion a
capital one ; and so, their spare time, before two
o'clock school, was spent in looking out their
hooks and setting-lines. Jack was arranging
EEL-HOOKS. 65
several hooks which he thought were what was
required. They were ordinary eel-hooks, with
eyes at the end of their shanks, and with a portion
of finish copper or hrass wire, so passed through
the eye of the hook and arranged as to be about
a finger's length, and four wires thick. These
were not twisted together, but very neatly and
firmly whipped over with waxed thread : they
were, in fact, Bob's own contrivance. He had
often lost hooks, sold as eel-hooks at the shops,
with two joints of twisted brass wire, eight or ten
inches long in all, attached to them, from the per-
tinacious twisting of the eels that had swallowed
them. He saw that the length of wire gave the
eel an advantage, by letting it have something
stiff to push against a sort of purchase, in other
words, through which it was sure to lay hold ot
some weed, or stick, or stone and then a few
turns more, and good-bye to the hook and the eel
together. He saw also that the twisting of the
wire helped the mischief; for if the eel twisted
the same way with the twist of the arming of the
hook, the wire could not bear it, and snapped off;
if the other way, the wires opened as they un-
twisted, and were either bent or re-twisted so un-
evenly that they gave way on the application of
only a slight force. So he devised an untwisted
wire armature, of only sufficient length to pass
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just through a minnow or small gudgeon, with
this view, that if an eel swallowed the bait he
must swallow also the whole wire armature ; that,
at all events, if a part thereof did still project by
any chance from the eel's mouth, it might be such
as to give him the least possible chance of twisting
it off. Bob had found these hooks answer so well
in practice that where he used to lose ten, now he
scarcely lost one. Well, Jack was laying out
some of these, when Bob, who had been busy with
other parts of the necessary tackle, observed what
he was doing, and interrupted him.
"Those hooks wont do, Jack " he said; "they
are only useful in dark nights. Look in the
right-hand corner of that box, under that lid "
pointing to a flat box that had once done duty as
his sister's work-box, and showed evident tokens
of homely joiner's work in its present fittings ;
" you'll find there some strong hooks on stout gut.
Take out about two dozen of them, and about as
many of those twisted horsehair links from the
drawer. They are what we must have to-morrow.
I hope that thunder-storm this morning will have
made the water muddy ; for then we shall do."
Jack did as he was bid, and soon everything was
ready, except the baits. These could be got after
five, or most of them.
Tbursday, then, had arrived, and the cousins
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started on their expedition. The earlier part of
their walk was quite without incident, except those
ordinary ones which meet every tolerably obser-
vant person's eye in the country, and would, to
very many, never seem to lose their homely
interest. All of these, however simple and every-
day and commonplace, were noticed, though
possibly not the least dwelt upon ; by Bob, with a
dash of much the same sort of feeling as that with
which we are conscious, rather than take special
note, of the presence of a loved companion whose
society has become habitual to us, and whose
lengthened absence from our side is a source of
restless though tacit uneasiness ; by Jack, with
much the same sort of pleasant eagerness as we
welcome the companionship of a new acquain-
tance whom we have already found agreeable, and
expect, on further intercourse, to find much more
so. On reaching the corner of the Spinney, they
saw a squirrel run up one of the trees in it, and
were much amused at the quickness and ease with
which it contrived to keep the trunk of the tree
between itself and them ; just giving a glance now
and then, on one side or the other, as if to see
they were not devising any mischief. They did
not stay any time, however, to watch him, but
moved briskly on. They soon reached the bridge
over the Whitwater, and then struck into the
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meadow between it and the lower part of Fox
Spinney. On reaching the brook which ran out
of the Spinney, they turned up its bank, and pro-
ceeding about half a mile along it, they observed
at one of its bends an old tree, which grew so far
out horizontally from the nearer bank as to
reach nearly half across the brook. On the other
side, there was a piece of dry gravel thrown up by
the deflection of the stream at the corner. To
scramble along this tree, throw his traps over,
and leap after them, was done in a very offhand
sort of way by Bob. Poor Jack, whose early ex-
periences had been of a very different kind from
his cousin's, managed to get along the tree,
though rather awkwardly ; but ' ' craned " a good
deal as he surveyed the leap. And his inclina-
tion to take it was not much aided by looking
down, as he stood hesitating, into the rather
rapid current beneath him. However, his deter-
mination " not to be beat," in trying to do what
he saw Bob do, came to his help, and he made his
spring. One foot tarried rather too far behind
him, and splashed the water well up on the hinder
part of his legs. But that he little cared for.
Once over, they lost no time in getting to the
Whitwater. Jack was now employed in unwind-
ing the lines one by one, and laying out the foot-
links straight, while Bob proceeded to bait and
KINGFISHER. 69
affix the hooks ; and that done, to " set " the
lines. This he did in most cases by lying down
on his breast, with his head and neck over the
bank, and then his jacket and shirt-sleeves being
rolled up high on his arm sticking the peg the
line was made fast to well into the bank as far
below the surface as he could reach ; which done,
he coiled the line carefully in his left hand, and
then released it as he threw the baits with his
right. He had already set five, and had got the
sixth ready baited, when, on lying down and'
reaching over the bank to put in the peg, some-
thing darted out from just underneath where he
lay, almost into his face, startling him so much
by its suddenness that he nearly lost his balance
and rolled in. Gathering himself up rather
hastily, he cast a glance down the stream, and
instantly recognised in the beautiful bird darting
along a little above its surface with even flight,
the cause of his discomfiture. In an instant he
was down again on his breast. Jack almost
thought he was going to work himself over the
bank into the water head first, water-rat fashion,
so eager was he in investigating the part of the
bank he had disturbed the kingfisher from. The
next instant he shouted out, with all the voice he
was capable of in his then position, " Hooray !
hooray ! Here it is \" Then a call to Jack to
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hold his legs, sit down upon them anything, so
as to keep him from slipping over : and he began
to fumble with his right hand, apparently at some
object in the bank. A minute passed thus, with
only " Poof ! how it stinks \" uttered by Bob,
when all at once he called out,
( ' I say, Jack, run and cut me a thin willow twig
as long as your arm. Never mind me, I can hold/'
Jack soon returned with a couple of twigs, and
put them into his friend's hand.
" The very thing/' he said, taking the longer
and more flexible of them. " Now sit as heavy
as you can, Jack."
He now proceeded to work this twig into a hole
which he had managed already to grope into, some
eight or ten inches, in the loose, sandy bank.
He then called to Jack to help him up, and rising
with a flushed face, he exclaimed
" We are in luck, old fellow. Here's a king-
fisher's nest, f as sure as shooting/ as Brother
Jonathan says."
' ' Where ?" says Jack ; " can I see it ?"
" Oh, yes," Bob replies, " if you have eyes of
the same make as Fine- ear's brother had I for-
get what you call him ; but you recollect, a three
foot wall was as good as a double opera-glass to
him. It would save a deal of trouble, though, if
you had a gift of that sort ; for then we should
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know just where the nest is. I think it is about
there," pointing to a spot in the turf fully two
feet from the extreme edge of the bank. " The
hole certainly turns this way, at about half a foot
from where I have grubbed to; and that's the
mark I made on the stick when I had got it in as
far as I could. I think we can get it. You couldn't
fetch us one of those spades you were talking of at
the Beacon, could you, old fellow ?"
Talking thus, Bob was by no means idle. He
had taken out a strong one-bladed sort of sailor's
knife, which he generally carried with him on
these expeditions, and had laid hold on a stake
from a hedge about thirty yards distant, and pro-
ceeded to work its point into a sort of chisel shape.
This done, he laid it on one side, and proceeded
making use of his knife for the purpose to cut out
the turf about a foot wide, in the direction he be-
lieved the hole to take. The hedge-stake was
then seized, and applied vigorously at the bank
end of the strip from which he had removed the
turf. The soil was very loose, and gave way
readily ; and fortunately for the young labourer,
no thick root crossed his course. The lesser ones
he removed with his knife, now sadly blunted.
With such a will did he work, that in a strangely
short time he came upon the hole where it opened
on the bank. This encouraged him to work on
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more energetically still, if anything ; and, at the
same time, very carefully, in order to keep the
guidance which the opening passage afforded him.
As he rounded the corner he had spoken of, he
had the satisfaction of finding that the direction
he had laid out as the probable one appeared to
be correct to within a couple of inches. Sticking
steadily to his work, at the end of twenty minutes
the odorous whiffs of putrid fish bones and other
similar matter rising from the excavation during
the whole process serving to convince him, more
and more that he was right in believing it to be a
nest hole he had the delight of admitting a glim-
mer of daylight and his own fingers to a nest con-
taining five eggs. This was a prize indeed, and
very carefully were the precious but not sweet-
smelling eggs transferred to their travelling berth
in the tin box. Repairing damages as well as he
could on the bank, by replacing the turf, &c. (as
the bird would most likely return to the nest),
Bob proceeded to finish the process, so long in-
terrupted, of setting his sixth line. But the nest-
ing spirit had come as strongly upon him now as
upon Jack the days before, and he proposed that
they should lose no more time in setting lines, but
just giving a look first to those already set, start
off up the Hagley Common brook or burn, and
try their luck for a dipper's nest. Jack assented
DIPPER. 73
eagerly. So, going back to look at their lines,
and finding nothing but a small eel on one of
them, they replaced the bait and returned the line
to the water ; and then started upwards with all
speed. They had not gone a mile before they saw
two pairs of water ousels, but no place that, in
Bob's judgment, appeared likely to invite them to
build their nest. Jack was greatly delighted, on
coming suddenly and quietly round a corner, to
behold one of them unconcernedly floating on the
water, and the next moment, on detecting the
presence of the intruders on its privacy, dip or
dive as quickly as the dabchicks had done at the
mere. The river was rather too thick to permit
him to watch the little bird's course under water ;
but he presently saw it emerge about twenty yards
lower down, and sit for a few seconds on a stone,
and then deliberately walk into the water again,
and disappear under it. Bob soon hurried him
on, however, and very willingly answered his
questions about the dipper. He said he had often
seen it walking or running on the bottom in shal-
low water, and that it used its wings as well as its
legs in doing so ; that it would sometimes walk
out of the water as they themselves might after
bathing ; and at other times it would suddenly
come to the surface in the midst of a pool, and
take wing therefrom without any trouble. Its
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food he believed to be fishes' eggs, and the larvae
of water insects, and the like. He had read that
the eggs of many fish took from 70 or 80 to 100
or 110 days after they were extruded to hatch,
and these little birds were believed to destroy a
great many of them in the meantime. As to
their nests, they were big enough to be seen, he
said, as the birds used plenty of materials, moss
being the principal one ; and the nest was very
like the wren's in shape, with a lining of dry
leaves. But the places they chose to build in
were so odd. He had been told of one which was
built in the pier of a bridge, in a hole in the
masonry which had been left for the masons to
insert part of the framework of their scaffolding
in, and which had not been filled up when the
spar was removed. His father, he said, had found
it, having gone under the bridge for shelter when
fishing one day, and overtaken by a very heavy
shower. Another he had heard of was placed
where the waste water from a mill-wheel formed
a sort of cascade on falling into the bed of the
main stream again. A fisherman's curiosity was
excited by seeing the birds passing in and out be-
hind the falling water, and he consequently went
over the stream to examine into their motive. He
was rewarded by finding a nest built amidst the
stonework under the sort of aqueous arch formed by
THE WARRENER. 75
the falling water, and the young birds perfectly dry,
but evidently very hungry. " So we are not very
likely to find one, I doubt/' he concluded, ' ' for
another such lucky accident as that of the king-
fisher isn't likely to befal us to-day."
By this time they had reached a point where
the descent was rather abrupt. Indeed, in places
small waterfalls were seen on the little stream
whose course they were following. And soon it
grew so narrow they thought it was no use going
up any higher. Bob proposed that they should
cut across to Turley Brook, and go down by it ;
not that their chance would be better on it, but
rather to vary the walk. Jack assented, and they
had just leaped the little stream when a loud
halloo greeted their ears. They looked round, and
saw a man about two Irandred yards up waving
his hand to them.
Bob, after a moment's gaze, said, " I think
that's the warrener. I wonder what he has got."
He, seeing that they had caught sight of him
and were turning up towards him, directed his
course to meet them. As soon as they came up
with him he said he had taken the liberty of call-
ing to them, as he knew of a blue hawk's nest on
the common, just above the warren, and he thought
they might like to have the eggs. He meant to
destroy the old birds if he could, but he would
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spare them for a day or two till there were two or
three eggs at present there was but one in the
nest, if the young gentlemen liked. They thanked
him for thinking of them, and said they should
like very much, but they were afraid they could
not find time to get up so far for a week at least.
Would he be so kind as save the eggs for them ?
He said he would be sure to do it, and then asked
what they were seeking there. They told him,
saying, moreover, that they had seen plenty of
dippers, but had little hope of finding a nest.
" Well," he said, " I know where there used to
be one. I lived over yonder, at Turley, when I
was a lad, you see, and many a trout have I got
out of Turley Brook. There's a broad pool just
over yonder hill-edge that has a sort of heap of
broken rocks in the middle of it, and that used to
be a famous place for trout. One day I was trying
to tickle one or two up there, and I was just
against the biggest rock, where there's a hole in
like a door ; my foot slipped, and I made a deal
of splashing and noise in trying to keep up, and
out came a dipper right in my face. She had a
nest as big as my hat in a hole on the right-hand
side."
" How long ago was that ?" asked Bob, eagerly.
"Nigh hand fifteen years," replied the war-
rerier.
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" Well," says Bob, " thank you for telling us
of the hawk's nest, and thank you for telling us
where you saw the dipper's nest. I have heard
they often huild in the same place for years. We
were just going over to Turley Brook when you
called. We'll go straight to the place you've told
us of."
No sooner said than done. Scarcely half an
hour had elapsed before they reached the place the
warrener had described to them. The brook, which
was about seven or eight feet wide, and fringed
with trees on both of its rocky banks above, here
widened out into a shallow pool of twenty-five or
thirty yards broad and forty long, in the midst of
which stood a confused, broken mass of rocks,
overgrown with brushwood and a few small moun-
tain ashes, forming a very beautiful and pictu-
resque object. There was more water than usual
for the time of year. However, Bob was not to
be deterred by that. He had his shoes and
stockings off, and his trousers rolled half-way up
his thigh, in two minutes, while Jack was cutting
him a stout stick to support him among the rough
and loose stones. Armed with this he was at the
door-like cavity among the rocks in a very short
time, with no mishap further than getting his
right leg into a hole so deep that the water reached
above the naked part of his leg. That mattered
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little, though, as the trousers were so tightly
rolled up they did not easily absorb the water.
The doorway seemed to invite him to enter, and
so he waded on about knee-deep in water, care-
fully feeling his way with his staff. On getting
within he looked to his right hand, but the rock
seemed all tolerably even, and to present not even
the semblance of a hole, much less one big enough
to admit a mass of the size of a man's hat. Dis-
appointed, but not despairing, he thought it might
be his own mistake, and that the warrener had
said the left hand and not the right. However,
the left side was less rugged even than the right.
Giving it up now, he determined to push in as far
as he could get. The cavity was about nine feet
long by three or three and a-half wide, and about
five feet high, reckoning from the bottom of the
water, which was rather uneven. At the further
end a little glimmering of light shot in from above,
which was a good deal lessened, however, by the
growth of some plant, apparently a fern. He
now turned to retrace his steps to the entrance.
As he moved on, no longer with his back to the
light, and so excluding some of it by acting as a
sort of shutter, he observed several small ferns
growing in the interstices or crevices in the rock.
He gathered two or three, and saw they were
merely small plants of common sorts. Nearer the
EXPLORING THE CAVE. 79
entrance, however, he noticed one with which he
was quite unacquainted. He took it for moss at
first, but soon saw it could scarcely be that. So
he set to work to gather some nice specimens,
and in order to do so more conveniently, rested
his stick against the rocky wall. While thus
occupied he took a step forward to get a very in-
viting-looking tuft, and in setting his foot down
placed it on a very sharp stone and hurt himself
smartly. Extending his left hand suddenly towards
the rock for support, to his surprise the part he
touched gave way or yielded under the pressure. It
flashed upon him at once that here was the warren -
er's hole, filled up, no doubt, with the materials of
a former nest. The same moment he heard Jack
shouting, and observed a moving object dart in at
the- opening, and out again, almost too quickly for
him to ascertain what it was, except that it was a
bird ; he suspected, however, that it was a dipper ;
and now he distinctly heard Jack saying,
"Did you see that water ousel, Bob? I am
sure she has a nest in there somewhere."
With the help of the light, which was now un-
intercepted, as I have said, and from the fact
that his eyes were more accustomed to the dim
light of the cavern, Bob presently made out that
the mosses on the old nest, as he thought it, were
very fresh. Closer inspection showed him a hole,
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neat and not the least frayed, as would be the case
with an old nest. He forgot all about the pain of
his hurt foot, and quickly inserted his fingers.
The next moment a joyous shout rolled out of the
cave, and conveyed to Jack the glorious news of
" A nest ! a nest ! and five eggs in it." A couple of
them were speedily transferred to his mouth, and,
taking his stick again in one hand and retaining
his ferns in the other, he made his best speed to
rejoin his companion on the bank. It would be
difficult to describe the boys' extreme delight at
this successful termination of their as they had
really begun to think it almost hopeless quest.
By the broad daylight, too, the fern looked a very
promising one ; and they agreed it should have a
special corner in the egg-case. Jack attended to
this and to the stowage of the eggs, while Bob re-
sumed his shoes and stockings ; and then, setting
off with light hearts, they started downwards to
take up their lines and return to the school.
About three-quarters of an hour brought them
back Jack charging the Hagley Burn valiantly
on the way to where the kingfisher's nest had
been found. Here their attention was first caught
by seeing both the birds close by the disturbed
and dilapidated entrance to their domicile. But
as at least a foot of the passage was left still intact,
and they had replaced the turf above so as rather
TAKING UP THE LINES. 81
to overhang the unexcavated part, the lads were
not without good hope the two birds would be
content to re-occupy their nest, and, if need be,
replace the three eggs of which it had been
despoiled. They next proceeded to take up their
line, and Jack now perceived the use of a wand,
about five feet long and not very thick, which Bob
had cut and trimmed a few minutes before they
reached this point. He passed it along close to
the bank slopingly, and so as to pass between the
bank and the string, and of course below the peg
to which the latter was fastened. Thus doing, he
was able to raise the line without the trouble of
stooping or lying down, as he had to do when
setting it. The line was very slack, he observed,
as he brought it up on his stick. " Nothing here,
Jack," he said, and, dragging up the peg by a
strong pull upwards on the line, he proceeded to
wind it carefully up, securing both hooks from
which every particle of bait had been removed,
however as he completed his task. They pro-
ceeded to the next line now ; Jack had forgotten
whereabouts it was, and was not much better
about the others. Not so with Bob. He
seemed to recollect to a foot where each line
was; and, stopping over the one which lay
next, he exclaimed, as soon as he set eyes on the
water,
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82 WALK THE THIRD.
"My word, Jack, we've got one here ; a thum-
per, I should say."
Jack saw the line stretched out quite tight
in the water- in the direction of a deep pool,
just below where they stood. The line was soon
caught, and Bob began pulling in, gently though,
hand over hand. A wavering motion at the end
of the line now began.
" An eel, Jack it's an eel, and a two pounder,
I'll answer for it."
Jack's excitement was intense, and Bob's, to
say the truth, not much less. But he did not
forget his caution ; and in a second or two an eel,
as thick as their wrists, and long as their arm,
came in sight, waving slowly through its length
like a streamer, as Bob pulled on steadily and
firmly. Now it was within a yard of the bank,
and Bob, altering the direction of his pull, lifted
it cannily out, and laid it, writhing and strug-
gling, on the grass. To place his foot firmly on its
neck, so as to press it strongly against the turf
sideways, and to pass his knife through the back-
bone at its junction with the bones of the head,
was the work of a few seconds. The eel was thus
deprived of life and sensation in a moment, and
Bob was able to extract the hook without trouble
to himself, or pain to the eel. For though it still
moved when touched, and would move for hours
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if kept moist, he knew very well it was only by
muscular contractions excited by the action of the
nerves in connexion with the spine, which did not
lose their irritability for long after life was extinct
in such creatures as the eel. Depositing his line
in the bag he carried for the purpose, and the eel
in his pannier, they proceeded to the next in suc-
cession. This was drawn up blank. The fourth,
again, was drawn tight, but not stationary, as
where the eel was caught. The end near the bank
kept moving from side to side, and it was evident
that at the other end rapid motion was going on.
The bank-end was soon in Bob's hand, and again
a glad exclamation showed he felt he had got " a
good 'un." The first pull was succeeded by a
rush from the captive fish ; the next by a plunge ;
then a dash to the surface of the water; then
another dull plunge ; and then a rush into the
bank under Bob's very feet.
" Gently, my darling," said Bob, " you'll have
enough of the bank in a minute."
And in less than a minute there he lay on the
grass, a beautiful perch of nearly a pound and
a-half, who had not been able to resist the appe-
tizing looks of a delicate little gudgeon of three
inches long. He was stunned with a sharp tap
on his head, and consigned to the basket. The
fifth line had a troublesome, twisting, slimy, small
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eel upon it, which was dealt with very summarily
by Bob, and ignominiously cast back into the
river. The sixth was rushing about in a strangely
vehement way.
" Hallo !" says Bob, " what's the row here, I
wonder ! That chap doesn't think himself a little
; un, I should say. Very like a whale, and no
mistake, is his ticket, no doubt. Now, old fellow,
take it gently, will you ? " as the violent move-
ments of the fish made the line slip off his stick ;
" draw it mild, I say," as he was baffled a second
time in the same way. " Here, Jack, put down
the egg-case, and lay hold here as soon as I say
1 now ! ' ' Jack was at his side in a moment.
" Now !" he sung out, sharp and quick. The rod
was in Jack's hand as quickly as the word out of
his cousin's mouth, and the next moment Bob was
down on his breast, and with safe hold of the line.
" Lay hold of my legs, or he'll have me in," he
shouted. Jack caught hold firmly. The fish was
still for a moment. " Pull me back, Jack," and
giving a wriggle backwards at the same time by
the help of one hand resting on the bank near the
water edge, he got so far back as to be able to
gather himself up on his knees. This was accom-
panied, of course, by a pull on the fish, and it was
responded to in an instant by a leap from the
water, another and another.
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" Look out for squalls, I say, Jack/' cried Bob,
who waxed slangy in moments of excitement.
" We haven't got this chap yet. I hope we
haven't ' cotch a Tartar/ as they say in China. I
thought we might get a trout here, just below that
glorious stream ; but I didn't bargain for such a
young dolphin as this. My line's strong enough,
and the gut too, I think. But the like o' yon, sirs,
eh ! it's just awfu'," as the trout made such a
desperate rush, he was obliged to let out the line,
though resistingly, until he let go of it altogether.
" Well, that peg's a good one, and well stuck
in, that's a comfort. Pull on, my hearty ; you
wont be quite so lively next time I get hold of
you. Now, Jack," he cried, a moment after,
" lay hold as you did before, when I raise the line,
and then help me up again, quick."
Jack did so, and again Bob knelt, and then
rose to his feet with the line in his hand. The
struggles of the trout were not so vehement this
time, though still strong enough to require a little
circumspection on Master Bobby's part. But as
soon as the trout began decidedly to yield, his
captor began to act with proportionate decision in
pulling him in, and in less than half a minute,
trusting entirely to his strong tackle, lifted his
gasping prey, and laid it upon the short grass.
'Twas a noble trout, of nearly four pounds weight.
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"And he will have a noble fate/' punned Bob,
" if the Doctor will have him. At all events, we'll
ask him, Jack. But how about the time ? By
Jove, I'd forgotten that ! Come along, Jack, we
must cut it like bricks \"
Jack, who had got his egg -box slung again,
and the line-bag ready, while Bob was disposing
of the trout and the line, was ready to start. And
away they went schoolwards, as hard as they could
get along with the weight they had to carry. How-
ever, before they had gone a mile, they heard the
fine old clock at Elmdon striking four ; after which
they took it more gently. They reached the school
in time, not only to be fully ready for the bell,
but to have ten minutes besides to arrange their
fern and their trout, before asking the Doctor to
look at them. At seven o'clock the wished-for
opportunity presented itself, and they asked the
Doctor if he could spare them five minutes to look
at something they had got.
" Willingly," was his answer. " Where is it ?
and what ?"
" In our study, sir. It's a fern. I'll fetch it in
a moment," said Bob, who knew the Doctor liked
short and decided answers to his questions. He
was but a few seconds gone before he returned,
bringing with him from the little apartment
which was the joint den of himself and his
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cousin, the fern in one hand and the trout in the
other.
"Why, you don't call that a fern, Benson.
Where did you get it ? He's a splendid fellow,
indeed. I have not often seen a finer anywhere."
" Please, sir, we caught it in the pool below
Swallowfoot Streams. We'd set a line there
while we went up Hagley Brook. Please, sir,
would you mind taking it ?"
The Doctor smiled, and said he wouldn't mind
the least; but had they any right to fish there?
"Oh, yes, sir/' said Bob. "The gamekeeper
gave me leave two months ago to fish anywhere
in Sir Cuthbert's part of the Whitwater. And
he said, if I set a line or two sometimes I should
not do any harm. And he showed me how him-
self, sir ; I mean, so as to have a chance to catch
a trout."
" Well, now for the fern is that it? Why,
Benson, you've been lucky to-day ; I did not
know this grew in the neighbourhood. It's Wil-
son's filmy fern. Where did you get it ? "
Out came the history of the dipper's nest and
the discovery of the fern.
" Upon my word, you are two lucky fellows ;
but to be sure you do what you can to deserve it
by perseverance and labour. Any other luck to-
day?"
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"No, Sir. Only three kingfisher's eggs."
" Only three kingfisher's eggs ! Why, what
would you have ? I have been inquiring for two
kingfisher's eggs for my nephew's cabinet these
two years and couldn't hear of any ; and you say
' Only three' of them."
" Please, Sir, will you take ours ?" eagerly asked
both boys. " We left two more in the nest, and
the birds are almost sure to lay some more ; we
can easily get others for ourselves."
" No, no, my good lads," replied their master ;
" I will not take yours. If you don't want the
third you have brought, I'll take that willingly,
and you can go some day and fetch me another
from the nest. It is probable the old hen will
lay more. I knew twenty taken in succession out
of one nest, one year."
So Doctor Noble had one of the eggs, very
nicely blown and dried, handed to him the next
day, together with the specimens of filmy fern ;
all but two or three which Bob had reserved to
send to his sister, when he knew what it was.
And three days after, having asked the Doctor's
leave to go up to the kingfisher's nest and back,
they had the gratification of bringing away a second
egg for him, and leaving four others in the nest
for the birds to hatch and rear.
CHAPTER VI.
Walk the Fourth The Grove The Hartstone The Eaven Tree
. Wrilton Castle Goldcrest's Nest The Lake Crow's Nest.
AT the approach of the next opportunity for a
long walk which presented itself, the boys hesi-
tated for some time as to the direction they should
take, and the objects they should propose to them-
selves. Bob was for settling both beforehand,
" for/' said he, " people who know what they are
going to do, and what they are going to do it
for, generally seem to do it best and to meet with
most success in the end. And people who wait
till the time comes when they ought to be doing,
before they settle what they mean to do, I have
often seen, muddle away half their time with
making up their minds, and then making half be-
ginnings/'
Jack, who had often lost half of his playtime in
this very way, and so knew very well the truth of
what Bob was saying, did not feel at all inclined to
dispute or, as boys generally do when one of their
90 WALK THE FOURTH.
companions ventures on a little philosophy to
laugh at his cousin's "short sermon for the young."
Should they go to the Common and see if the
warrener had destroyed the blue hawk's nest ?
suggested Bob.
" What else could we do there, and what is a
blue hawk ?" inquired Jack. " I have looked in my
bird-book, and I can't find any name like that."
" Oh ! the blue hawk is the same as the merlin,
I believe. The male merlin has a blue head and
a blue back, and a beautiful fellow he is. I be-
lieve the colour of his back gives him that country
name. As to what else we could do up there, we
might find a golden plover's nest, and in those furze
thickets we should have a chance of meeting with
the whin- chats' and the twites' nests. The meadow
pipit, too, is very common on some parts of the
Common, and there are always plenty of nests,
the keeper told me one day. Then, too, there is
that brook which runs down Watery Lane ; there
is generally a nest or two of the summer snipe's
near it, and I know there are two pairs of these
birds there this year, for I have seen them."
" And suppose we don't go there, Bob, where
else can we go ?"
" Why, there is one place you and I have never
been to yet ; I mean the old castle. You know
Sir Cuthbert, who lives at Wrilton Park, is an old
SIR CUTHBERT GRAHAM. 91
friend of my father' s, and he generally asks me to
go there for a couple of days every half year, and
I have leave to go all over the pleasure-grounds,
and to the lake and castle. And it was only the
day before yesterday that I met him as I went
down town after twelve, and he stopped and spoke
to me, and said he hadn't seen me lately ; wasn't
I coming soon to see him ? And then I asked
him if I might take you next time I went to the
castle, and if we might look for some starlings and
jackdaws' eggs there. He asked who you were, and
when I said my cousin, ' Ah ! yes/ said he, ' I
remember; my old friend Bessy Benson's boy.
She married Mr. Edwards. It is a long, long
time since I saw her. Well, you must come up
to the Park next week, or the week after, and
bring your cousin with you. I'll send my groom
and the dogcart for you, and speak to Dr. Noble,
and let you know as soon as I can fix a day/
I declare I quite forgot to tell you before, Jack."
Jack was so taken up with the idea of the
pleasure-grounds and lake, and ruinous old castle,
that he did not seem quite so much impressed
with the importance of a visit to the Park as
many of his schoolfellows would have been;
and he was urgent with Bob to settle at once to
go to Wrilton Castle on the coming Thursday.
Bob, who had a hankering to go there himself,
92 WALK THE FOURTH.
did not want much pressing ; and so, when the
time came, they took the road that ran past the
church, and, about two miles further on, past the
lodge gates of the Park. They did not remain
on it very long, however; for on reaching the
churchyard, they took the footpath which led
through it past the rectory garden, through the
meadow which the little Wrill ran through (and
thence through the rectory pleasure-garden), and
up the little hill the other side at the back of
the rectory stables and other buildings. Then
they crossed the railway and struck into the lane
that led past the Pest-house. But before reaching
that lonely building, the lane skirted " the Grove"
for nearly half a mile, and through the Grove
Bob meant to reach their destination, Wrilton
Castle, which stood within what was now the
pleasure-grounds or, as it was generally called,
the wilderness of Wrilton Park. Bob told his
cousin on reaching the Grove that there was a
good deal of superstition among the country people
about this wood; and not a few among their
schoolfellows shared in it, as perhaps was to be
expected, since there were not a few day-boys in
the school; some the sons of parents who had
come to live at Elmdon for the sake of sending
their lads to the school; others the sons of gen-
tlemen or professional men belonging to the town.
ADVENTURE IN THE GJROVE. 93
He remembered, one day last autumn, he was there
nutting with half-a-dozen others of "the boys,"
when sounds like hollow groans were heard, and
every boy ran for his life, he said, and never
stopped till they had placed two or three fields
between them and the Grove. He added, he was
as bad as they at first, and had run out of the
Grove as fast as any of them ; but then he felt so
ashamed of himself he was determined he would
run no further, and after a minute or two, and
with a beating heart, he made up his mind that
he would go into the wood again, and make out
what the noise was ; for it still continued to be
heard at intervals, though not so loud as in the
wood. " For I did not know," said the lad,
" that it might not be somebody who had hurt
himself. And once, too, I had seen a boy take
a fit in the school, and he made noises very
like those I now heard in the wood." So he went
on, guiding himself by the sound, and had nearly
reached the spot whence it appeared to come, when
all at once his courage nearly gave way again at
the loud whirring noise made by something rush-
ing out of a thicket close to his side. Not a little
ashamed was he of his momentary tremor the next
instant, on recognising its cause in a magnificent
cock pheasant, which coolly flew up into an oak
tree close by, and crowed at the intruder. " I could
94 WALK THE FOURTH.
not help a hearty laugh at this," he said, " and in
that laugh all my fears escaped, and I pushed
boldly through the thicket, and there in a bog,
nearly suffocated, poor thing, lay a big calf; all
black it looked, but that I soon saw was with the
mire. It seemed to have been struggling a long
time, and was all but exhausted, and those hollow
groans, as we thought them, were the moaning
lo wings it had made in its distress. I soon ran off
towards Farmer Langley's for I knew it must
belong to him though I was almost beat to keep
on running for laughing, when I saw some of the
boys who had run away the fastest that great
lout Jeff Harvey the chief among them and who
on seeing me re-enter, had gathered up pluck
enough to come back into the next field, start off
again more helter-skelter than ever, when they
saw me running as if for life big Jeff Harvey
running right over poor little 'Miss Boulton/ and
never stopping to pick him up again, or indeed so
much as to look behind him. As luck would
have it, I met Mr. Langley himself on his ponyj
with one of his men, in the third field from the
Grove. I could hardly speak, I was so out of
breath ; and he was half-inclined to be cross, for I
had broken through one of his hedges before his
very eyes with so little ceremony ; and he had had
a good deal of trouble that way with three or
THE MIRED CALF. 95
four of 'our fellows' more than once. But
when he understood from me what was the reason
I was so out of breath, he said
" ' I beg your pardon, young gentleman, for
being rude to you. But I was vexed at the loss
of this very calf, which has been missing ever
since yesterday, and it is one I set a deal of store
by ; and I did not like to see my hedges broke
before my very eyes. Will you please to go in at
the Farm, and sit down and cool yourself, till
I get back. I should take it kindly if you would/
"No, thank you, sir, not now," I answered; "I'll
go back with you, and see you get the calf out."
"'Why 'tisn't a calf rightly; it's a year-old.
But you'll get more out of breath and hotter than
ever ; for, from what you say, Jem and I mustn't
let the grass grow under our feet/
" I can keep up with you," I said; "and besides,
I know exactly where the calf is, and you do not."
" ' Thank you, sir ; that's right again/
" Very few words more were said, and in ten
minutes time the farmer, and Jem, and I were
standing by the calf safe out of the mire, but
quite unable to stand. And that's the end of as
good a ghost story as many that I have heard.
I think they all might be spoiled with just such
another ending as my calf, if there wer'n't so
many Jeff Harveys in the world."
96 WALK THE FOURTH.
Jack appeared quite absorbed with the attention
he gave to the former part of this narrative ; and
to tell the truth, being of rather an imaginative
temperament, felt very ready, on leaving the
bright sunlight for the comparative gloom of the
wood, to indulge a little superstitious fear on
hearing it hinted that some people fancied it was
"haunted," and was rather disappointed than
otherwise, at being obliged to laugh at Jeff Harvey's
discomfiture, and the denouement of the mired calf.
" What made folks think the place was ' un-
canny ?' "
" Oh \" said Bob, " I dare say it was the neigh-
bourhood of the Pest-house, and the ruins of the
Castle on the other side. I know many people
would not go by the Pest-house, after dark, on
any consideration ; nor yet through the Church-
yard. And there are several old tales about
shocking things that happened in the Castle, hun-
dreds of years ago. In a few minutes, we shall
come to the Hart-stone. They say that was put
up where a famous white hart, that had baffled
everybody who had hunted it for years, was killed
by the two sons of the then Lord ; that the young
men quarrelled about which of them had given
the fatal wound; that the quarrel ran so high,
they fought then and there, and so fiercely, that
before the forester who was with them could in-
THE HART-STONE. 97
terfere, one of them was dying, and the other so
badly wounded, that though he lingered on for
many months afterwards, yet he died of his hurts
just within the year, and was buried a year, to a
day, after his brother. And it was always said after
that, that both those unhappy young men ' walked'
at night round the scene of their death, when that
day came round each year, with their bloody
swords and gory wounds. And here we are, at the
' Hart-stone/ " he cried, as they came on to a sort
of treeless level at the corner of the Grove, and
saw the Castle turrets rising above the wooded
banks of a ravine about a mile further on; but
the prominent object in the foreground was a grey
stone, about six feet high, rough and unhewn, and
now covered, in places, with lichens, and showing
evident tokens of great antiquity. " And there/'
he added, "is the Raven-tree. Tradition says a
pair of ravens have built in a tree hereabouts for
hundreds of years. That tree is known to have
been occupied by them for more than thirty years.
A large bough which had a pile of nests, one above
another if each year's repairs, rather than build-
ing, can be called a nest at all nearly five feet
thick, fell or was broken out, one stormy night
about ten years ago; and since then they have
built where you now see the nests. See what a
heap it is, and I can see the old lady's tail sticking
H
98 WALK THE FOURTH.
out. A boy once climbed up and had just got
within reach of the nest he had a sort of staff
slung to his wrist to beat off the ravens with if
they attacked him, and they did seem very much
inclined to do so, the keeper told me when Far-
mer Langley, knowing something was wrong by
the outcries of the two birds, came up to yonder
corner on his pony, and he wasn't long in find-
ing his way under the trees, and letting the lad
know that if he touched the nest, he, Farmer
Langley, would give him such a dusting and he
cracked his horsewhip as he said so as he would
not forget for his life. Mr. Langley is almost as
particular about them as Sir Cuthbert Graham ;
and lie says he'd as soon have the old Castle
pulled down as the raven's nest destroyed."
Jack was curious to know more about the raven,
how many eggs it laid, and other particulars of
that kind. Bob told him four or five, and that
usually they bred very early ; that they always
drove away their young as soon as they were able
to shift for themselves ; that they were believed
to attain a great age, and were now most com-
monly met with in rocky and inaccessible places,
having, like some other birds, been very much
lessened by the destruction of their nests, and the
war waged on them by the race of gamekeepers.
He added, that he had heard they often had one
RAVEN'S NEST. 99
or more eggs addle, and that, when the young
were flown and the old ones had quitted the nest
for the year, he should ask if he might get up the
tree and examine the nest, in case there was one
this year : a plan which we may add here, he, a
few weeks afterwards, carried into execution, and
was rewarded for it by the acquisition of an egg,
none the worse as a specimen, but very disagree-
able to blow. Leaving the Hart-stone and the
Raven-tree, they issued from the Grove by climb-
ing over a dry wall which had some long stones
let through it so as to form a kind of steps to get
over by, and then proceeded to scramble down the
side of the ravine nearest to them, and cross the
little brook which brattled along at the bottom,
running into the lake which received the Wrill two
or three hundred yards lower down. On the sort
of promontory between this brook and the Wrill,
and rising not less than one hundred to one hun-
dred and twenty feet above those streams, stood
the Castle, The bank facing the point at which
they came in sight of the Castle and descended,
was very steep and in places precipitous ; but
generally affording space and earth for not only
brushwood to find root, but for many trees, and
some of them very fine, to grow and thrive. They
had no great difficulty therefore in climbing this.
On the other side, above the Wrill, the case would
100 WALK THE FOURTH.
have been very different. There, there was a
sheer descent from the edge of the cliff to near
the bottom, and the only approach to the Castle
from the direction of the mansion was at a point
where the other, that is, the southern bank there
as rocky and precipitous as that on the north-side
approached within four or five yards of it.
Over this chasm a bridge had been thrown, con-
necting the Castle precincts with the wilderness.
At all other points, however, the southern bank
sloped away, not gently, but still gradually, down
to the edge of the Wrill, leaving grassy glades
here and there, and in other places showing
thickets of indigenous shrubs and trees, occa-
sionally alternating with clusters of foreign growth.
Among others, Norwegian spruces and silver
spruces were seen, reaching magnificent dimen-
sions ; and several American fir-trees grew grandly
enough. But the boys had not much attention
to give to such details as these on reaching the
Castle, of which the keep was entire and the
barbican and flanking towers little the worse for
dilapidation. The principal parts of the main
building, however, were utterly ruinous. Here
they could make out the great hall, and there
some smaller apartments. Beneath again, were
vaulted rooms, which of course were supposed by
the country antiquarians to have been dungeons.
THE CASTLE. 101
Tlie walls, too, where there had been need of
fortification, on the only side unprotected by
nature, were more or less perfect. There they
had been very strong and thick; and the towers at
either end were tolerably perfect, as were the
winding staircases in each of them.
Bob left Jack to amuse himself here, while he
himself ran on to the gardener's house, just at
the garden extremity of the wilderness, to get the
key of the thick door which gave admission to the
keep. Jack climbed up one of the staircases, peep-
ing out of the narrow slits, which did duty for win-
dows, as he reached them in succession, and came
to a floor which required very cautious treading,
so broken and treacherous was it, and issued at
a small vaulted doorway which had evidently
communicated with the parapet of the external
defence ; but it was broken away a few feet from
the tower. Then he tried to ascend a little higher,
as the stairs still went winding up ; though the
floor above he saw had utterly given way. At the
top of the stairs he found a sort of landing in a
kind of semicircular recess, with loopholes open-
ing in two directions. He had scarc'ely put his
head above the last step, when a great fluttering
and flapping ensued, as half a score birds hastily
endeavoured to make their exit through the loop-
holes. He saw they were of three sorts, and in
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his haste, imagined the larger black ones were
crows. Divers holes in the wall he saw, and
pieces of stick and straw poking out of them;
while sundry chirpings and squeakings assured
him there were young birds not far off. Greatly
stirred with the hope of securing some eggs before
Bob's return, he proceeded to investigate the con-
tents of all the holes about five within his reach.
The first he put his hand into contained four cal-
low nestlings. But of the other four, no less than
three contained eggs. In two of them, the eggs,
four or five in number, were of a pale blue, a
lighter tint than the hedge-sparrow's eggs, and
nearly as big as blackbird's eggs ; the other two
nests contained eggs which he recognised imme-
diately, being no other than common sparrow's
eggs. Two of the blue eggs he deposited care-
fully in a corner, and then looked about to see
how he could contrive to reach more of the holes.
He thought if he could get up into one of the
openings, and were to reach up so as to catch hold
of a projecting stone with one hand, with the
other he might succeed in exploring at least two
more of the nest -containing receptacles. After one
or two efforts, and barking one of his knees, and
the knuckles of one hand rather severely in the pro-
cess, he at length succeeded ; and just as he heard
Bob's lusty " Jack, I say Jack, where are you ?"
JACKDAWS' AND STARLINGS' EGGS. 103
he was enabled to call out, " Here, old fellow, up
at the top of the tower, with a handful of eggs."
Bob ran up the stone steps as quickly as their
nature and the light permitted, just in time to
see Jack getting down from his standing- place, and
finishing the business rather more quickly than
he intended, by taking a very abrupt seat on the
stone landing-place, rather to the discomfiture of
his stern-framings.
11 Up again, old fellow ; none the worse, I say?"
was his greeting, as he helped his cousin up irom
his involuntary seat.
' ' No, not much," he rather hesitatingly said,
as he rubbed himself rather feelingly ; " and what's
more, both the eggs are safe."
One he had held in his hand safely, spite of his
bump, and the other was in his mouth.
"Well done, old fellow; why, you've got a
couple of jackdaw's eggs, and " seeing Jack stoop
to take up the other two he had laid aside before
beginning his clamber " as many starling's eggs,
I declare. You're coming it strong in my ab-
sence. But what's in there? That isn't a star-
ling's nest, I know."
" No, it's not," replied Jack ; " it's a sparrow's.
I've had my hand in there; and there too," as
Bob looked at another hole.
They now placed these eggs safely in the box and
104 WALK THE FOURTH.
descended the staircase. Retracing their steps to
the keep,, Bob put the key in the door, and after
a few efforts succeeded in opening it. To get to
this door they had to go up an external flight of
several stone steps, and on entering, a turn to the
left brought them upon a winding staircase, which
conducted downwards to the basement story, as
well as upwards to the two floors above, and thence
to the platform over all, which commanded a very
wide prospect of the surrounding country. The
entrance story was much loftier than the story be-
low, and occupied the whole interior space of the
building ; and the vaulted and groined roofs, and
stone floors, and elaborately carved circular arches,
were regarded with great curiosity by Jack. The
story next in succession seemed to have been the
principal apartment of all. It was called the Ar-
mory, or sometimes, Bob said, the Hall of Au-
dience. It was a noble apartment about forty
feet by thirty-three, exclusive of the space occu-
pied by a gallery which ran round it. And its
height from the floor to the apex of the great arch
which extended across and supported the upper
part, was more than twenty feet, and five or six
more to the ceiling. This part of the building
was very much decorated, and the bases and capi-
tals of the pillars showed most elaborate orna-
ments, no two of them being alike. There was a
GOLDCREST'S NEST. 105
great quantity of armour at the Park, Bob said,
and old weapons of many different sorts, which
Sir Cuthbert had told him had once hung on the
walls in this very room. But what struck Jack
with the most surprise was the great thickness of
the walls; nearly thirteen feet through at the
bottom and more than nine feet at the top. And
Bob bade him observe that the east wall, for some
reason or other, was a foot thicker than the others.
The whole height of the building, at least of the
square turrets at the corners before they were so
much damaged at the top, must have been nearly
120 feet. As it was, the main building with
its battlements thrown down, was nearly 110 feet
high, and no doubt the turrets rose higher than it.
The two boys lingered long about this interest-
ing old tower, and then, reluctantly descending,
Bob closed the door and both went over the bridge
into the wilderness. Jack wandered down one of
the slopes amid the trees and shrubs towards the
Wrill, while his friend ran on to return the key ;
and here he was overtaken by him on his return.
Passing on beneath some spruce firs, Bob sud-
denly uttered a cry of delight :
" Oh ! Jack, only look what a beautiful little
nest."
And so it was, indeed. Neatly woven of fine
moss and lichens on the exterior, interwoven with
106 WALK THE FOURTH.
wool and spiders' webs, it hung suspended beneath
one of the spreading fir branches, towards its
end, being supported by having some of the lateral
twigs as it were woven into its framework : lined
with soft small feathers, it contained no less than
nine of the most delicate little eggs conceivable.
Jack's delight was more than equal to Bob's, and
it required the exertion of all his kindly feeling
towards living creatures in general, and birds in
particular, and of his power of self-denial, to re-
frain from cutting the branch, and taking it, with
the nest attached just as they had found it, home
with him. Bob's rhetoric and his own good feel-
ing prevailed however, and, contenting themselves
with the abstraction of the usual two eggs, they
left the nest unhurt They were rewarded by see-
ing the little gold-crest return to its temporary
home, and resume her seat upon the remaining
eggs before they left, after having most carefully
packed their spoils in soft cotton wool.
Crossing the Wrill by some stepping-stones a
short distance above the point at which it entered
the lake, they skirted the foot of the precipice
beneath the castle till they reached the shore of
the lake. The walking here, for some distance,
was very laborious, from the large masses of rock
which had fallen down from above, and which had
large quantities of tangled briars and brambles
WATERFOWL. 107
and brushwood growing upon and among them.
However, they made their Avay on though with
some difficulty, and after a good deal of perse-
verance till they passed over the 150 yards or so
of shore which lay between the mouth of the
Wrill and the other brook. Once there, their dif-
ficulties ceased. The sheet of water lay spread
out before them in all its beauty ; and Jack had
time and leisure to notice not only that three varie-
ties of the swallow tribe were busily taking their
insect prey about the lakes, but that there seemed
to be a good many waterfowl of various kinds
upon it. Bob told him there were; that Sir
Cuthbert took much interest in them, and was
very careful not to allow them to be disturbed ;
so that besides several foreign species which he
had turned down, many varieties of the British
wildfowl either bred there on those little islets
they saw in three different parts of the lake or
paid visits at other times of the year. That very
beautiful English bird, the shoveller, Bob had
himself seen there, and there were several shield-
rakes about it. He believed that a pair of them
had once nested in a rabbit burrow on the further
side of the lake and brought off eight young ones.
But it had only happened once, to Sir Cuthbert's
great disappointment. Bob added further, that
among the other birds introduced the winter be-
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fore last, were a great black-backed gull and a
black goose. Sir Cuthbert had obtained both
in the course of a week's Avildfowl shooting afloat,
on the Essex coast. Both were so slightly in-
jured by the shot no apparent hurt being dis-
cernible beyond the damage of the extreme end
of the pinion, which disabled them from flying,
and only just that that their captor determined
to save them alive, bring them home, and put
them down on his lake. He did so, and though
the goose was knocked about by the other fowl
who were the old denizens of the lake, if he ven-
tured near them, he soon became familiarized with
the gardener and his wife, and would approach
within a few feet of them for food, which they
usually carried for the purpose of encouraging
him. As for the gull, his boldness degenerating
almost into impudence and his voracity were
about equal. He soon learned the way up to the
gardener's lodge, and paced or pattered along with
quick, short steps when excited, on the short grass
before the windows. Nothing came amiss to him
in the eatable way ; mice, young birds, frogs,
large slugs, all were snatched up and deposited
without effort or ceremony in what must have been
a very capacious and accommodating stomach.
One day the gardener had killed a rat, not a very
large one, to be sure, but still an adult rat. This
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he threw to Jack Blackback, as the gall was
called, without any thought that he, Jack, would
proceed to extremities, but more out of idle curio-
sity to see what he would think of it. The rat
was unceremoniously taken up in the formidable
bill and swallowed, tail first. It did not seem to
go down easily or comfortably ; but go down it
did. However, after a minute or two it seemed
to strike Master Jack that he could arrange a
better stowage for this large morsel, and so the rat
was ejected, thrown on the grass, taken up again
and swallowed a second time, head, first, with as
little ceremony as before; and, as the event
showed, more compatibly with internal comfort.
Bob now drew his friend' s attention more
specially to the swallows, which were flying about
in large numbers, and asked him if he knew them
all. Jack said, he knew the forky-tail chimney-
swallow very well, and the common martin also ;
and he supposed those smaller birds, which showed
some lighter colour on the back and rump than
either of the other species, were sand-martins.
' ' Just so," said Bob ; " and what you cannot
see everywhere you may here I mean the swift,
the swallow, the martin, and the sand-martin, all
may be seen on the wing at the same glance, and
all breeding within a quarter of a mile square.
The swallow nests abundantly in the chimneys of
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the gardener's lodge and some outhouses at the
end of the wilderness, and among the home farm
buildings adjacent. The swifts several pairs, three
or four at least build in the highest parts of the
old keep. The martins have numerous nests on
the ledges, or rather under them, among those
precipitous rocks we came beneath a quarter of an
hour ago ; and the sand-martins have founded a
very extensive and prosperous summer colony in
the sandy soil, above an old quarry, the track to
which now almost entirely disused for several
years lies up here, above our heads."
" Oh, let us go and see them," cried Jack. " I
have had such a curiosity to see a place where the
sand-martin breeds, ever since I read 'Eyes and
no Eyes.' "
"Well," said Bob, "if you are not tired of
climbing, I am not ; but arn't you a little stiff
behind?" Bob looked rather malicious as he
uttered this query. However, Jack, with a good-
humoured twinkle in his eye, contented himself
with replying :
" Never you mind, Bob ; I dare say, if the truth
were known, you've sat down hard yourself some
day or other."
" That I have, old fellow, and no later than last
holidays: I was with my brother Ned out shooting,
and we were crossing a brook. I jumped down, a
A HARD SEAT. Ill
couple of feet or so, on to what I took in my
haste for a sloping bed of hard mud or clay, dig-
ging my heels well in in intention at least that
I might not slip forwards into the water. What
I took for clay was hard rock, and the nails of
my boot-heels coming so fairly on to it, you may
judge if I didn't come down with a run. My
word, old fellow, I can feel it yet. I'd have given
all I possessed to have had a good cry ; but though
Ned didn't see what was the row, there was a
grinning lout of a watcher, carrying the bag and
marking, close behind me, and didn't he snigger
at my catastrophe ? I guess he grinned the other
side of his mouth though, half a minute after.
He got gingerly down the bank, and came half
bursting with trying not to laugh to 'help
Master Robert out of the water,' he said ; for, as
I slid down the stone, my legs straight out, like
a fellow that's been tripped up in a slide, of course
they dabbed slick into the water, till I was brought
up, all standing, by the bottom. I got out
without his help, and in shaking nay legs and
stamping my feet partly to get the water out of
my trousers, and partly to dull the sense of my
pain I brought my heel down once (quite by
accident, of course,) on his toes. He didn't laugh
again for half an hour, by My ton town clock, I'm
sure/'
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By this time Bob had led the way into a very
rugged track, much grown up with weeds and
brambles, which went obliquely up the hill. Fol-
lowing this in its windings and zigzags, they soon
reached a rather extensive platform, with plentiful
debris strewed about on all sides, originating partly
in the effects of time and weather, and partly in
the quarrying operations of old times. A smooth
face of solid rock, divided by thin seams of softer
material into three beds of stone, varying in thick-
ness from five to ten feet, rose up before them ;
and above this was a further face, not quite so
perpendicular as that of the rock beneath, of
reddish soil or sand, about five feet thick. And in
this were seen countless round holes of apparently
some two or two and a-half inches in diameter,
and numbers of the sand-martins flying in or out.
' ' Nests enough, there, my boy," exclaimed Bob,
as they rested after their scramble up. " Wouldn't
you like to put your hand into one of them ?"
" Oh, yes !" answered Jack, " indeed I should.
But can't we ?"
"I'm afraid it's not to be done at the price/ ;
was the discouraging reply. ' ' We could clamber
up that corner at least one of us and then, if
he came to grief, the other that stayed below
might pick up the pieces, and report the fracture ,
and we might, in that way, get our feet on to yonder
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ledge, one hand on those projecting roots, and the
other into those three or four holes that are within
reach. But those holes reach in more than two
or three inches. Some will be a foot, others
nearer two, in depth ; and I don't think, if we were
sitting at ease in arm-chairs just before them, we
should at that rate succeed in penetrating their
interesting mysteries. No, Jack, we must leave
them alone in their safety ; but if we go up to the
common again soon, I know a sand and gravel
pit, not far out of our road, which contains some
nests that are accessible from above, and though
we have a couple of eggs, we'll see if we cannot
open one up for you."
The two boys now descended from the quarry,
crossed the brook at the bottom of the bank,
climbed the one on the other side, and re-entered
the grove, about a quarter of a mile below the
point at which they had left it on their way to the
castle. As they passed on through it, taking
short tracks, known familiarly to few besides the
gamekeeper, from drive to drive, so as to cross to
the lower corner on the Elmdon side, Bob's sharp
eye detected an unnatural protuberance on one
side of a tree not very far from the edge of the
grove.
" That's a nest," he said. " It is cunningly put
within that broken limb, which makes it look less ;
I
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but it's a crow's nest for all that. At all events,
I'll see." And accordingly, in less than a minute,
he was sufficiently high in the tree to ascertain
not only that it was a crow's nest, but contained
four eggs. He took one, for they had one already,
and as he put it in the case, he said, rather to
himself than to his companion, " A crow's nest
here dainty fare for Mr. and Mrs. Blackneb ; the
young pheasants in the wood, and the ducks' eggs
and small swimmers from the lake : I must tell
Banks. Let's see ; how can I get him to know
the tree ? Ah ! I see. He must come in by the
end of the hedge between Longland's and Three-
acres, and the third large tree on the right, 15
yards from the hedge" stepping it as he spoke ;
"that'll do exactly."
They now left the wood, crossed the Wrill by
an accommodation bridge, uniting the two parts
into which it severed a meadow, and walked
through a couple of other meadows to the road ;
trudging along which they reached the Church as
the clock pointed to half-past four. In less than
ten minutes they were in their study, and had put
away their egg-box on its accustomed nail, and
proceeded to prepare themselves to be present at
roll-call, as soon as the bell should summon them.
CHAPTER VII.
School Examination Merlin's Eggs Golden Plover's Nest
Stonechat's, Whinchat's, Common and Mountain-Linnet's
Nests Corn Crake's, Whitethroat's, Longtailed Tomtit's,
and Willow Wren's Nests.
THE occasion for their next walk presented itself
much sooner than they had any reason to expect.
When the school was next assembled, after their
return from the excursion recorded in the last
chapter, in the course, that is, of the same
evening, Dr. Noble informed the boys publicly
that he had that day received formal notice
from the Visitors of Elmdon Grammar School
namely, the Bishop of the diocese and Dr. Healy,
the master of St. Hilda's Hall that they pur-
posed to pay their annual visit of examination on
the following Monday.
" We have but short notice this time, my boys/ 1
said the doctor in conclusion, " but I have no fear
that you will not acquit yourselves well; and 1
don't believe that many of you would care to have
much more time for special preparation."
As he passed Bob in the school-yard, a few
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minutes afterwards (the school having just been
dismissed for the evening), Dr. Noble said to
him
" I think the bird's eggs haven't interfered
with the Latin and Greek ; have they, Benson ? "
" I hope not, sir. I think I like my work very
well, and I haven't lost any places in class."
" No, indeed you have not ; and I think at the
end of the half-year you will gain several steps.
You have given me much satisfaction, Benson, by
your general attention and good conduct, as well
as by your progress." And then turning to our
friend Jack, who had come up as he addressed
these last words to Bob, he said
' ' You have done very well too, on the whole,
and your general conduct I am thoroughly pleased
with. You can't do better than what I am
very glad to see you so well disposed to do
make a friend of your cousin."
Passing on, he left the two lads deeply gratified
with his kind notice and commendation, and de-
termining they would do their best to deserve it.
" I say, Jack," said Bob, after a few seconds,
" we mustn't do the worst on Monday."
" No fear of that, Bob. I only wish I could
do as well as you."
Well, the days passed on. Bob and Jack both
spent the greater part of their playtime and
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many others of their schoolfellows in the higher
forms did the same in rubbing up anything they
thought had got rusty in their school work, and
making themselves safe in what they considered
doubtful places ; and it was remarkable how much
Bob, who, to the best of his ability, applied his
principle of knowing " what he was going to do,
and what he was going to do it for," to his work,
had succeeded in getting done ; for there were but
few points in which he found necessity to begin, as
if upon something still rather new and strange.
Monday came at last, and punctually at a quarter-
past nine the Bishop and Dr. Healy were ushered
into the school ; and in a few minutes a real,
honest examination commenced, the visitors con-
fining their attention principally to the perform-
ances of the three upper classes, and giving com-
paratively casual observation to the examination
of the lower ones, which went on under the imme-
diate superintendence of the Rector of Elmdon
who was, in compliance with the statutes, always
requested to be present on the occasion and the
head-master himself. Our friend Bob was specially
noticed by the Visitors, not for his brilliancy or any
shining scholarship, but for his general accuracy
and the readiness with which he produced the
results of his reading, or his recollections of what
he had learnt in class. They inquired particularly
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of the Doctor who he was, after they had left the
school, and what were his characteristics ; was he
not a very attentive and diligent scholar ?
Dr. Noble, in his answer, said that Benson was
a very promising boy. Attentive he was certainly,
and diligent too in the hours allotted to study ;
but if the inquirer meant, as he rather supposed
he did, out of hours Dr. Healy here assented
certainly not. No boy in the school entered more
heartily into all the games, particularly the athletic
ones ; or more seemed to enjoy them. And then
he just glanced at Bob's predilection for natural
history, and his rambles in pursuit of this or that
object of interest. The secret of his success, he
said, was in his energy, and perseverance, and
method. Whatever he undertook he put his heart
into it. What he did he " did it with his might,"
said the Doctor, making the allusion reverently.
If it were cricket or football, or the acquisition of
a new egg, or the capture of a basket of fish ; the
mastery of a new rule in arithmetic or algebra, or
of a problem more difficult than usual; or the
complete comprehension of the scope and inten-
tion of a passage in his Latin or Greek, the same
method, and determination, and perseverance were
always brought into play. " He will lead the
school," concluded the Doctor, "if he remains
here two or three years more. He is very popular
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already among his equals in age, and even among
some of his seniors. And if God spares his life,
he will make not only a rising but much more
than that a useful man."
Jack came in for no especial notice ; but before
leaving the school, the Bishop, in a few plain but
forcible words, told the boys that the Visitors were
quite satisfied with the results of their examina-
tion ; that in their opinion the school more than
maintained its position ; and while they, the Visi-
tors, could not but give the scholars credit for
their evident efforts to avail themselves heartily of
the opportunities for improvement placed within
their reach, they could not themselves shut their
eyes upon the fact, and it was right that the
scholars should know their opinion the speaker
said he did not doubt they all felt the same thing
themselves that in the careful and conscientious
superintendence and instructions of their Head-
master, the scholars of Elmdon school enjoyed an
advantage not easily to be overrated. He had
only further to say, that, with Dr. Noble's permis-
sion, there would be, in accordance with imme-
morial custom, a holiday for the remainder of the
day. The hearty cheers which resounded from
180 young throats as he ceased speaking, and
which had almost broken out when Dr. Noble's
name was mentioned, were a sufficient proof that
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the orator had just said what found a response in
every heart there.
Jack, on joining Bob as they came out of
school, was rather apprehensive they would lose
their walk ; as the latter, of course, could not ask
the Doctor's leave in school, though he had passed
close behind him on leaving the room ; and now
he would be busy with the Visitors, and not to
be interrupted.
" Oh ! never fear," said Bob; " when the Doctor
is too busy to be interrupted he tells the second
master to give leave for him to those who are en-
titled to ask it, and wish to go out ; and I saw
him speak to Mr. Patten as he passed." And he
soon had an opportunity of approaching that
gentleman, when he immediately gained the per-
mission he desired.
The two companions had settled on Saturday
that they would go up to the Common, if the
afternoon on Monday were suitable, and they
were able to get off in good time ; and Bob had
seen the warrener, who had come into the Satur-
day's market with some young rabbits the first
of the season, and only just big enough for sale,
although a very early litter and had learned from
him that he had the three eggs the blue hawk had
laid, all safe for himself and his friend ; and, fur-
ther, that he knew where there was a golden plo-
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ver's nest, with one egg in it, which he had acci-
dentally walked over the day before. It was there-
fore arranged that he should meet the lads about
one o'clock at the " Longstone :" as an upright
pillar of unhewn stone, believed to be British in
its origin, was called. They made all speed to
reach the appointed place by the appointed time,
but were inevitably a little late, as they did not
get out of school till rather after twelve, and
then had some preparations to make before start-
ing. The warrener had been on the Common
about half an hour, he said, but had had one or
two weak places in the wall of the warren to
repair, not far from the trackway, so that he had
not lost his time. He first produced the three
merlin's eggs out of an old tobacco-box, and Bob
lost no time in transferring them to his egg-box ;
and then a screw of blue paper, containing a fine
sample of " birds'-eye" from it to the warrener' s
hand. The warrener, whose own consumption
was usually " shag," thought he had much the
best of the bargain ; an opinion not shared in by
Bob, and still less by Jack, who had an immense
respect for hawks, and all that belonged to them.
They now passed rapidly on to the part of the
Common where the plover's nest was situated.
Before they had got nearer to it than 300 or 400
yards, they heard the well-known plaintive single
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note of the golden plover, and in a minute more
one of the birds took a short flight in their direc-
tion, and settled on the ground about 100 yards
in advance of them, where he continued repeating
his cry at very short intervals. This was the male
bird, as they saw from the dark, indeed black
colour of his breast, as he stood on a little
eminence above the general level of the moor,
piping plaintively. The hen sat still about 150
yards further on, piping, too, as if in answer to
him, but not so incessantly.
" I thought we should not see either of them
very near the nest," said the warrener. "The
nest is here, rather to our left. Here is the cock
on our right, and there is the hen on our right
too ; and, Pll be bound, a good hundred yards
from the nest. And by this time, I'll lay, she
has got her four eggs all laid."
As the three drew nearer to the nest, the
uneasiness of the two plovers evidently increased.
The male made several short flights, and at last
came within half gunshot, where he alighted and
ran restlessly about ; and the hen sat about
twenty yards further off. Their piping was now
incessant. The warrener, who had marked the
position of the nest by its bearings in relation to
two thistles and a tuft of rushes, proved to be quite
right in his surmise that there would be found to
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be four eggs in the nest ; which was only a hollow
in the ground, barely big enough to contain the
eggs, and with the barest apology for a lining,
of dry bents or grass. The eggs were fully as
large as the pewit's if anything, a very trifle
larger ; not unlike them in general appearance,
only perhaps the dark blotches were a little darker
than in the pewit's egg. They were also symmetri-
cally arranged, point to point in the centre. No
time was lost in placing two of them very beauti-
ful in the eyes of both boys, as indeed these eggs
really are in the egg-case. And then Jack asked
if " the warrener had never seen them on their
nest?"
" Why, yes," said he, " I have. But it's when
the eggs are very ' hard sat/ and the old one's
within a day or two or a few hours, maybe of
hatching. She'll almost let you tread upon her
then ; but when the eggs haven't been long laid,
they are uncommon wary. They seem to keep
watch, and to see you as soon as you come on to
the level where their nests are ; and I expect, the
hen, as soon as her mate gives notice by his
whistle, that anybody is nigh, runs quietly off her
nest ever so far, and never takes wing from any-
where near it. And you'll see, that as you go away
now, they'll follow you by flights of fifty yards at
a time bit by bit like till you cannot see any
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longer where the nest is. And then, they'll pay
no more heed to you."
It was just as the warrener said, and very
interesting to his companions. He now wished
them good-day, and turned to his own occupa-
tions. They prosecuted their walk to the furze
thickets, and soon got their legs well pricked.
Both whin-chats and stone-chats were there, and
twice they had seen mountain-linnets as they
crossed the common thither. Still, no nest re-
warded their search.
"Hang it, Bob/' cried Jack at last, his legs smart-
ing, and his hands unprotected by stout gloves
such as his cousin, foreknowing his work, had
brought with him bleeding : ' ' hang it, I say ; it's
no use ; I have looked into twenty bushes, and I
have got five times twenty pricks into me, and my
hands are bleeding, and never a shadow of a nest
have I seen. You might as well look in this old
bush" and as he spoke, he struck the bush near
him with an old dead furze stem he had just
picked up " for a nightcap as a nest."
The words were scarcely out of his mouth,
when a little bird flew out of the very bush he had
struck, and alighting on the top twigs of another
furzebush about twenty yards off, began to utter,
somewhat quickly, a rather sharp, chattering note.
The stick was out of Jack's hand in a moment,
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and forgetful of pricked legs and bleeding hands,
he was deep in the search for the nest he felt so con-
fident must be somewhere in the bush. But in
vain did he seek, and his confidence was beginning
to ooze out, when Bob, happening to look up,
shouted to him
" Look lower down, Jack ; lower down. They
don't build so high up in the bushes as that."
'Twas new spirit to him, this hint ; and acting
upon it instantly, the next moment a glad shout
announced his success.
" I have found it. Here it is."
" That's right, old chap ; and I've got another,
with four eggs."
" And mine's got five in it," replied Jack,
eagerly.
" Wait a bit, will you, till I can mark mine,"
responded Bob ; " I want to see it."
Bob was soon at his cousin's side, having tied
his pocket-handkerchief to the bush where his
own nest was, and he almost danced with delight
when he exclaimed
" We are in luck, again, old fellow. Yours is a
stone-chat's ; mine's a whin-chat's, or furze-chat's,
as some call it. Look here. Take a couple of
these eggs and bring them along to my nest, and
you'll see the difference in a minute. Mine are
half as blue again as yours, and are scarcely
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speckled at all; while you can see lots of tiuy
little speckles on your eggs," reaching two eggs
as he spoke out of the nest he had found, and
close to which they were now standing. " Go it
again, Jack," he cried the minute after, having
duly secured the four eggs ; " we'll have a moun-
tain-linnet's nest yet. I'm sure there are some
here; I have heard their call, again and again,
the last few minutes. Your luck always comes
double you know ; starling's eggs first, and then a
bump. Isn't that it?"
He jumped lightly out of the way as Jack aimed
a blow at him for reminding him, quite unneces-
sarily, as he said, of his painful mishap the other
day. The latter went to work again without
delay, using a stick, however, instead of his
hands, to push open the bushes ; but, it must be
confessed, without the slightest thought of really
finding another nest ; notwithstanding which, his
luck really did seem to come double. For to his
own vast surprise, having straggled on to a con-
siderable distance from Bob whose investigations
were much more methodical and persevering, and
rewarded with the discovery of two more of the
stone-chats' nests in the ensuing quarter of an hour
he disturbed another bird from its nest, which
proved to be, not really the twite, or moun-
tain-linnet, as he supposed, but the common, or
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grey-linnet, or, as it is sometimes called by
boys from the colour of its head, the red-linnet.
He ran hastily to Bob with his prize ; which Bob,
after looking at them for a moment, assigned
positively to their rightful origin, adding, they
would be very useful, as their own specimens were
only cast-offs from the museum collection, and
imperfect to begin with.
" But a mountain-linnet's nest we must have,"
he added, " for all that ; for I am convinced there
are some here, and not far from us."
So saying, he took off his gloves, in order to
stow away Jack's eggs ; flinging the leathers care-
lessly down on a rough, benty bank of no great
height, near to which he was standing at the
moment. Disturbed by the action, or by the fall
of the gloves, a small bird started from the side
of the bank among a tuft of bents and stunted
ling. Bob's eye was instantly fixed on the bird.
" The real Simon Pure/' he cried, as it perched
on the furze at no great distance " the mountain
linnet itself, at last. "Where did it come from,
Jack?"
Jack thought from somewhere near where the
gloves lay, but he had not seen the bird the instant
it rose, and could not say exactly. A few minutes'
search, however, disclosed the nest, and two twite's
eggs were speedily added to the rest.
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Bob was quite as willing as his cousin now, to
leave the furze brakes ; and a moment's consulta-
tion ensued as to whether they should go on into
the marsh, or return by the footpath and look into
the partridge's nest they had found nearly three
weeks since, or try and make a straight course to
the brook, in the vicinity of which Bob thought
they had a chance of finding the nest of the com-
mon sand-piper, or summer snipe. It was soon
decided that they should take the footpath to the
place where the partridge's nest was, and from
thence strike across the fields to the brook. They
therefore quickly crossed the warren, seeing a
couple of snipes rise as they passed the pools both
of which began to bleat as they rose high enough
in the air and with no loss of time found them-
selves close to the partridge's nest. This time
Jack, as well as Bob, succeeded in detecting the
old bird on it.
" See, Jack," said Bob, as they passed on, "she's
safe as yet, with, I dare say, fourteen or fifteen
eggs under her. I wish you luck with your
brood, my dear/' he added, nodding back in the
direction of the sitting bird.
They now crossed or skirted three or four fields,
until they came to the upper streams which sup-
plied the brook running along Watery Lane. Bob
felt they were now engaged on rather a wildgoose
JEM. 129
chase ; as he knew enough of the summer snipe's
habits to be quite aware the nest might be some
distance away from the waters the birds them-
selves mainly frequented. And as they walked
down the stream for nearly half a mile, seeing first
a single sand-piper, and then, a few minutes after,
two together but no sign of a nest he inferred
that the mate of the single bird they had seen was
probably sitting, and if so, her nest was certainly
not near the brook ; while, as to the whereabouts
of the nest belonging to the pair, they had not the
slightest clue to it. They therefore gave up the
quest as hopeless. They were now within one
field of Watery Lane, and as they reached the
gate opening into that last field, they saw, coming
along the cart-track with the evident purpose of
passing through the gate, a labouring man with
a team of two horses in an empty cart. Stopping
to hold the gate open for him, Bob and the carter
recognised each other simultaneously as the latter
came up to the gate,
" Why, Jem, is that you V was Bob's greeting ;
and,
" Young Measter, Fs very glad to see yer/' the
carter's.
Jack soon comprehended from the interchange
of question and answer which ensued, that this
was the veritable Jem of the mired calf history :
K
130 WALK THE FIFTH.
that he had left Farmer Langley, and was now
working for Farmer Raven. Fearing Jem ask if
' ' young measter wor as keen arter buds' nests as
he used to be ?" Jack listened with increasing in-
terest, which was not the least damped on hear-
ing, in response to Bob's answer, " Yes, he was/'
"Well then, coom along a bit wi' me, and I
can show yer one o' them craker's nests. I seed
it yesterday as I was a-mowing o' clover hard
by here ; and I's going for anither load now ; and
I knows of a nettle-creeper's nest, and a bottle-
tom's, nit far off. An' cow-boy, I heered him say
yesterday, he'd found an oven-builder's in the
pightle."
Much of this harangue was Greek to Jack, who
only comprehended that these queer names were
country names for birds ; but what these birds
were he couldn't even guess. However, they went
on with civil Jem to the adjoining field, where he
had to mow a load of the early clover for the farm-
horses' provender ; and, after he had cut an armful
to put before his horses, to keep them ' e quite," as
he said, they went about thirty yards farther up by
the side of the unmown clover, and then were de-
lighted to see what Bob recognised as a landrail
or corncrake's nest, with eight speckled eggs in
it. Jem said it would be no use leaving six of
them, as the clover would be mowed the day after
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to-morrow, and then the nest must be destroyed.
So as no object would be gained by leaving them,
they took the rest as well. He then turned aside
to the fence, which lay about fifty yards distant,
and there, in a bed of nettles and other rank
herbage, but not far above the ground, he showed
them another nest with five eggs in it, and which
he called a nettle-creeper's. The nest was made
of dry grass loosely twisted together, lined with a
little horse-hair, and some which apparently once
grew in a cow's tail. Bob thought they were a
whitethroat's nest and eggs, but 'did not feel at all
sure. He took care to secure a couple.
" I fund it yesterday," said Jem, " when I
come here to cut a stick, for I left my whip at
whoam ; and as I went along here I seed that,"
pointing to an oval mass in a thorn bush, tolerably
well hid by the broad leaves of some brambles
which thrust themselves up through the bush ;
" I reckon it's a bottle -tom's."
Bob knew the long-tailed torn-tit by that name,
but if he had not, he would instantly have re-
cognised the nest. A most beautiful oval struc-
ture, neatly and strongly compacted of mosses,
and wool, and spiders' web, and with a feather to
serve as a sort of door to the entrance at the upper
part of one side. Jem was going to cut the bush,
on which the nest was built, that they might have
132 WALK THE FIFTH.
it just as it was ; but the boys would not hear of
that, and, rather to his discomfiture, contented
themselves with taking two only of the eight deli-
cate little pinky-spotted white eggs it contained.
:c Now," said he, as they left him to go to his
work, " you goo up to the farm, and you'll see the
cow-'us jest facing yer as you goo into the farm-
yard. Goo straight up to the door, and you'll see
cow-boy cleaning it out, afore he drives the cows
in; you ask him to show yer the oven-builder's
neest."
Mr. Raven's farm was very little off Watery
Lane, and so they bent their steps thither with
all speed, after thanking Jem for his good-will
and help. They found the cow-boy just going to
drive the cows in, and he took them directly to
the pightle : and on the upper part of the mossy
bank of one of its surrounding fences, amid a few
stubs (whence the brushwood had been cut years
before), and a plentiful growth of long stems of
grass, and not raised at all above the ground, they
saw a grass and moss-made dome-covered nest,
lined with leathers, and in it half a dozen beautiful
little eggs, but much larger than the bottle-torn' s,
white, speckled and most at the larger end
with pale red, which Bob pronounced to be the
willow- wren's. Bob asked the cow-boy if he could
spare them a couple of the eggs.
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" Ees, to be sure/' replied that worthy ; " all
on 'em, if yer like."
"No/' said Bob, "two will do. But aren't
you going to take the others ? "
" Noa, I ain't/' said the boy ; " they're no use
to I. She may hatch 'em if you don't want 'em."
Bob and Jack thanked the lad very warmly, and
after a diligent rummage in their pockets, clubbed
together the magnificent sum of twopence half-
penny, which they offered to him.
" Noa, noa," said he ; I do'ent want nought."
However, as they pressed it on him, he eventually
took it, with a good pull at his forelock and a
" Thank'ee kindly, measters."
Rejoicing greatly over this most successful as
to the number of eggs obtained of all their ex-
cursions, they returned to the school, and met the
Doctor at his own door, just returning from the
station, whither he had been to see the Visitors off
by the 4.15 train.
"Well, what luck to-day?" he cried as they
came up.
The box was straightway lifted off the shoulder
that bore it, and placed open before him.
" Upon my word, a goodly afternoon's spoils.
But come into my study, and let's look at them
more leisurely. You've nearly half an hour yet to
roll-call. Well, what do you call them all ?"
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Bob proceeded to name them in the order they
had got them, until he came to the last four, and
then he very demurely said, " And those eight
are craker's, and these two nettle-creeper's, and
these bottle -torn' s, and these last oven-builder's."
The Doctor laughed. " I see," he sai.pl, ' ' you
didn't find these for yourselves, some country-
man told you of them ; or did you know those
names before ?"
" I knew bottle-torn before, sir ; but not the
others. But is the nettle-creeper the same as the
whitethroat, sir?"
" I think there is no doubt," replied the Doctor,
" that the eggs you have there are whitethroat' s
eggs : but I believe the name nettle-creeper, like
most provincial names, is very loosely applied,
and that it includes the garden- warbler, the com-
mon and the lesser whitethroats, and perhaps
one or two others of the same tribe, whose habits
and nests more or less resemble those of the
whitethroat. I dare say you know that bottle-
torn has a variety of other names ; that oven-
builder, even, is sometimes applied to him, and
that he shares another name with the willow- wren.
Bum-barrel is one of his names, and another I
have heard in Suffolk, and of which I can make
out neither the orthography, nor the derivation,
nor the meaning, is mum-ruffin. Only one Eng-
FIRE-CREST. 135
lish bird lays smaller eggs than these, and that is
the gold-crest ; unless indeed the fire-crest is taken
to be another species, and not a mere variety of
the gold-crest. Yon are not very likely, I doubt,
to get those delicate little eggs in this part of the
country."
" Oh ! sir," chimed in both boys, " we got two
of them the other day, Thursday, I mean."
' ' Did you, indeed ? Where ? I did not know
they bred anywhere near."
" We found the nest on one of the fir trees, in
the wilderness, at Wrilton Park, sir, and my
cousin wanted sadly to have nest and all. It was
so beautiful."
Dr. Noble, on hearing they had been to Wril-
ton Castle, asked them several questions about
their explorations, and told them several curious
particulars about the castle, its architecture and
history ; and lending them the " County History,"
which contained, he said, " a meagre but correct
account, as far as it went, of the Castle," dis-
missed them to prepare for the sound of the
evening bell.
CHAPTER VIII.
Walk the Sixth Sandpiper's and Magpie's Nests Bush Mag
pie and Tree Magpie Nests of the Nuthatch, Ringdove, Wood
cock, Stockdove, and Spotted Woodpecker.
ON the following Thursday afternoon, the two
lads started from the school-gate about a quarter-
past twelve. Their discussion, on the previous
day, as to what should be the direction of their
walk, and its objects, had been much shortened
and abruptly settled by the receipt of a note, very
neatly written and correctly spelt and expressed,
from their friend the gamekeeper, in which he
said, that if " Master Robert and his friend had
nothing better to do the next day, and would
come either to the end of the marsh, nearest the
common, to be there a little before two ; or, to
his house" (which lay close to a cross road running
up from the Whaldon-road, at about three miles
from Elmdon, over the Wassett, to Turley),
" about one, he had several things he thought they
would like .to see, besides a few eggs which he
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had fallen in with and had reserved for them."
They decided, however, that they had not time to
reach his house by one, as it was a good, hard hour's
walk. They would therefore go to the marsh, and
would spend the hour they would have to spare
before the gamekeeper joined them at the rendez-
vous, in going about the lower part of Fox Spinney,
and seeking for any "of the wood-building birds'
nests they might be fortunate enough to meet with.
As they went along Watery-lane, Bob suggested,
that instead of going on as usual till they turned
off into the lane that led to the Turley-road, they
should take up the cart-track they had seen Jem
on on Monday, and endeavour to make their way
through the fields in such a way as to cut off the
corner and strike the Turley-lane, near where the
foot-path led out of it to Fox Spinney. He said
he thought they could do it without walking over
the growing crops or breaking the farmer's hedges ;
for he knew the main stream of the little brook
they had walked along when seeking the summer
snipe's nest, ran nearly up to the point he named,
and if they kept pretty close to it he was sure
they could do no harm. They directed their
steps accordingly, and as they were trudging
briskly along, Jack asked if Banks were the prin-
cipal gamekeeper on Sir Cuthbert Graham's estate,
and if he were, why he did not live nearer the park.
138 WALK THE SIXTH.
" Why, I believe the reason is/' answered Bob,
" that the most important part of the estate for
game is up here. There is another wood about
two miles more Whaldon way, larger than Fox
Spinney, and then there is Turley Moor, which
has a great many grouse on it ; and six or seven
thousand acres of inclosed land besides, which is
full of partridges. But the property does not go
a yard beyond the park, in the Saxby direction,
and the Grove is the only preserve that way;
besides which, at the back of Elmdon, there is not
much land belonging to Sir Cuthbert. The bulk
of it lies much more this way. So there is a
watcher, or under-keeper, who lives in one of those
nice cottages, about half a mile beyond the Church.
And the keeper lives up there, where I showed
you ; and besides, he has another under-keeper
living somewhere about Turley, besides lots of
watchers, in the game season."
While Bob was giving this explanation, they had
arrived at a point a little higher than that at which
they had struck the brook on the Monday. Bob
interrupted himself rather suddenly as he uttered
the last words, interjecting a rather sharp "Hallo'/'
the next moment stooping a little, and appearing
to be engaged in scrutinizing some object on the
further bank of the little stream very closely.
" I saw something move in that hole, Jack. 1
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am certain of it. But I don't think it was a
water-rat. I'll see, though."
And jumping lightly across on to a bare place
about a couple of yards 'below, he proceeded to
make his way as gently as he could, to just above
the suspicious hole. Here, however, he was saved
the trouble of any further investigation by the
darting forth from the hole in question of a
smallish bird, which flitted rapidly down the
stream. Both boys recognised it at the same
moment, and both exclaimed, " A summer snipe."
Bob was down on his knees in a moment, and in
his eagerness, in some danger of toppling over
head first into the water. But recovering himself,
and looking over so as to be able to see into the
hole, he cried to Jack,
" All right, my lad. "Tis the nest, and four eggs
in it too. Just a little moss and dry leaves, that's
all for 'em to lie on. It's lucky she moved, or I
shouldn't have seen it, hid like that by that
dockweed. Aren't they beauties ?" he continued,
as he drew out two of the peculiar shaped eggs
laid by all that tribe of birds, very much pointed
at the smaller end. " And what whoppers, too !
Why the bird isn't much bigger than a lark,*and
look at these eggs, more than twice as big and as
heavy as the lark's eggs."
" What's the reason, Bob, that all these eggs,
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such as the golden plover's, and snipe's and
pewit's, and now these sandpiper's eggs, are so big
in proportion to the bird that lays them ?"
" Indeed, I can't tell,'" was Bob's answer to this
inquiry. " I've read somewhere that it is because
nature intends the young ones to have room for
growth, so as to come forth in a much more help-
ful state than those of such birds as roost in
hedges ; that thus they are better able to get out
of danger, which is much greater on the ground
than in among the branches of a tree or the twigs
of a bush, by being able to run quickly almost as
soon as they are hatched. But I don't understand
it, for all that" Bob went on " the young par-
tridges run as soon as they are hatched, with the
very egg-shell sticking to 'em sometimes, I've
heard, and the eggs they come out of are only as
big as snipes' eggs, as we noticed the other day ;
and yet the old partridge is four or five times as
big at least, as heavy as the old snipe. And
then again, the young waterfowl all swim nearly
as soon as they are hatched ; and little puff-balls
of dabchicks, and water-hens, and coots, dive
before they are many hours old, and so on. And
the *eggs of water birds in general are not at all
large in proportion to the birds that lay them. In
fact, the eggs of many of the swimmers, not to
say all of them, are small in proportion. And
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those willock's eggs too, Jack, you know what
big ones they are very near as big as a goose's
egg ; bigger than some of the varieties of wild-
geese lay ; and the willocks or guillemots them-
selves not one-sixth part of the size of the geese.
According to the supposition, then, the young
' willys' ought to come out, when hatched, up to
all sorts of dodges; ' to fend for themselves' like
bricks, as Scotch Mary says. But instead of that,
they sit motionless on the narrow ledge where
they are hatched till their mother, some day get-
ting tired of feeding her great lazy, voracious
babby, takes it on her back, and, flying down to the
sea, ' whummles' it in. No, no, Jack, that's not
the reason why the eggs of the waders generally
are so big : and I am sure I don't know what is."
Delivering himself thus, Bob stopped about
twenty yards from a fence, or rather a hedge, the
end of which abutted on the brook, and which was
of considerable thickness, and had grown into
bushes ten or twelve feet high in many places,
and said to his companion,
" There's a nest, and a big 'un, in yonder bush ;
but I doubt it's an old one."
" Let's go and see," cries Jack, and was cross-
ing directly to it.
" Gently, Jack ; don't tread the corn ; " and,
walking round the corner instead, they soon stood
142 WALK THE SIXTH.
under the nest ; which, however, was not an old
one ; as they saw immediately on being able to put
the bushes a little on one side, and look in.
" Thorns in our legs, scratched hands, and torn
jackets will be the order of the day for us here,
my boy, unless we look sharp and mind our eyes,
or else give it up, which perhaps you would prefer,
Jack. You know you don't like pricked legs and
bleeding hands. I say, are your wounds healed
yet, my poor boy ? " the last few words being
uttered with intense compassion in his tones.
Jack's abrupt reply was " You be hanged,
Bob; you're always chaffing a felloAv. I think
you are afraid yourself."
11 Well, perhaps I am. But I say, Jack, how
are we to get at this nest ? "
When Jack looked a little more closely at the
task before him, he saw it was anything but
an easy one. The magpie that built the nest
for he knew directly he saw it near enough that it
was a magpie's nest, albeit built in a bush, while
all he had seen before had been built in trees
had deserved to be called a crafty bird. The bush
was a particularly thick whitethorn plant, of par-
ticularly spiteful growth ; the thorns on it were
not only long and sharp, but very numerous. It
was no easy matter to get within reach of the
main stems except by creeping in on hand and
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knee. The outer twigs of course would not bear
the weight of a cat, much more of a stout boy ;
and the only entrance through the strong compli-
cated dome or superstructure of the nest was on
that side of the bush which presented the most,
and the most difficult, obstacles to the would-be
plunderer. Jack looked and looked, but could
suggest nothing besides creeping underneath, and
then rising in what he thought looked like a
hollow in the bush near the stem. " Try it," said
Bob, concisely. Jack did, and succeeded in raising
himself on to his knees without much trouble ;
but his cap was caught by a meddlesome thorn
just above his head, and he didn't find it easy to
set it free. Still he thought he had succeeded, and
so he had, though only to get it caught again as
soon as he moved, as he presently found ; for, on
trying to raise himself to his feet, he found his
cap scrubbing hard down one cheek and ear and a
thorn insinuating itself very unpleasantly at the
back part of his scalp, from which when he en-
deavoured to get himself free, he found he didn't
mend matters much by pushing against another,
which seemed desirous to try conclusions with
his cheek-bone. Withdrawing himself with more
desperation than caution, he brought back a piece
of the latter in his cheek, and snatching down his
cap, which hung suspended on the thorn that
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wooed it so winningly, rather impatiently, he tore
a neat three-cornered slit in it. He emerged at
last with a redder face and less confidence than
he went in with. But he joined in Bob's laugh
with great good humour, asking him to take the
thorn out of his cheek as gently as he could ; which
was easily done, there being a good handle to it
outside the flesh.
" Well, Jack/' said he, " we must leave it, I sup-
pose. And yet it looks very much as if it had four
or five eggs in it. What's it to be, old fellow ?"
" Why get it, Bob, to be sure, even if we have
to go to Raven's farm for a ladder."
" Well, Jack, I think I can get it if you'll bear
a hand, without going quite so far for a ladder.
Did you notice the brook at the bottom of the
hedge, where we left it just now, how shallow it
was ? And did you notice that sort of frame that
was hung there to prevent the cattle walking out
of one field into the next through the shallows ?
I don't know if we can get that. If we can, it
will do for a ladder."
Jack jumped with delight, and ran off full speed
to the brook. Bob came rather more leisurely ;
and, looking carefully at the hinges by which the
water-gate was hung, shook his head, saying,
" I was afraid so. Don't you see, Jack, these
crooks turn different ways. That one with the
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nut on it was put in after the gate was put in its
place. That cock won't fight, unless we take this
thick rail and all ; and that won't be easy. See,
it's fast at this end to this tree with three ten-
penny nails."
Poor Jack despaired again now of anything
nearer than Mr. Raven's ladder ; but, looking at
Bob's face, he saw a knowing smile there, which
he interpreted into " I'm not beat yet ;" and
eagerly cried, " What is it, Bob ? I'm sure you've
another plan."
" Aye, Jack ; but it will make us sweat."
"Never mind that; anything rather than be
beat."
" Well, then, we must go back to the last hedge
we came over. There was a hurdle there which
looked strong enough. I think we can manage to
bring it here, and take it back when we've done
with it ; and once on the top of it, we shall do."
Eagerly enough did they run to the hedge. Toil-
ingly along they returned with their burden, and
quite willing was Jack to lay his end on the ground
at the foot of the bush previous to making the last
effort of rearing it up lengthwise and placing it
properly. But before doing this, Bob proceeded
to cut a stout hazel stick about two feet long, and
to tie it securely with twine, which he took from
his pocket he said he always took a coil with
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146 WALK THE SIXTH.
him, it was so often useful on these occasions
across the longitudinal bars of the hurdle, about
halt-way between the strong side-rail, and the
transverse bar (applied to strengthen the hurdle)
nearest to it. " For it won't be so easy/' he ex-
plained, " when the hurdle is pressed against the
yielding bush by my weight, to get from this bar
to that at one step."
The hurdle was now reared and set against the
bush. They saw directly that it would answer,
though Bob would have to mount upon the side-
rail, which was now uppermost. He found his
stick of immense assistance. Indeed, it was doubt-
ful if he could have managed the last step without
it. Then, carefully separating the bush with his
gloved left hand, and leaning on against it the
while with all his weight his jacket buttoned
quite up to his chin to obviate thorns, and Jack
holding the hurdle below very firmly, according to
his instructions he succeeded in inserting his
right hand without much damage except a few
scratches on his wrist, and bringing it out again
with three out of the six eggs it contained; taking
three instead of two in case of accident amid the
strong, sharp thorns. The labour was now
achieved ; to descend was easy, and the make-
shift ladder was soon replaced, and the egg- box
taken up and re-slung. They had spent more time
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than they had bargained for over this nest, but
still Bob thought they had time to go on into the
Fox-Spinney as they had planned; and they walked
rapidly on in the direction of the footpath. As
they were walking on, Jack asked his cousin if it
was usual for magpies to build in such places as
they had found this nest in.
" Oh yes," said Bob, " I have seen many a
one in hedgerows where these bushes are allowed
to grow high and thick. I think as many as in
trees, in parts of the country where such hedges
abound. The country folks will even tell you that
there are two sorts of magpies, which they dis-
tinguish by the names of bush -mag and tree-
mag ; and they add that there is a true difference
between them, independently of the difference of
their nesting places. The bush-mag they say has
a much shorter tail than the other. But my
father laughs at that, and says the difference
in the length of the tail in the alleged varieties is
much the same as that in the measurements of
Peter Simple's royal Bengal tiger, which measured
sixteen feet from the nose to the tail, and seven-
teen from the tail to the nose. I suppose their
instinct teaches them that a well-selected thick
bush is quite as likely to be a safe place for their
nest as a tall tree, and they act accordingly, on
what is God's lesson to them. And we have had
148 WALK THE SIXTH.
a proof to-day that they do not practise what they
learn badly."
Thus talking, the boys reached the lane, but in-
stead of leaving it immediately for the footpath,
they continued to walk along it until they reached
the corner of the wood. Entering here, they found
themselves among a good many large beech trees,
with very little undergrowth beneath them. Jack's
ear caught a bird's note, rather a sweet one,
and several times repeated. Bob's attention was
arrested by it at the same moment.
"There's a nuthatch," he said ; and after a very
short pause, he continued, ' ' there must be several
of them here. Look here are traces of last
autumn's work," pointing out to Jack sundry
husks of beechmast, and empty nutshells, which
still remained fast in the seams and rifts of an old
oak they were abreast of. Bob further laughingly
desired Jack to keep his eyes skinned, and if he
saw a hole in a tree with anything like clay about
it, to let him know."
" What, anything like that ?" said Jack, point-
ing to a hole in an ash tree, which they were
passing in a glade a little distance from the
beeches, and which the hole, that is, and not the
tree appeared to have been reduced in dimensions,
by the plentiful use of a kind of clay plaster.
" Why, Jack, you're a regular brick. One has
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but to ask you for a thing and he gets it. Why,
that's the very thing I meant. I'll lay my best
hat to your patent ventilator there" pointing to
Jack's tattered cap " that there's a nuthatch's
nest there, neither past nor future, but present.
That clay's quite fresh."
" But how to get at it ?" asked Jack. " It's
seven or eight feet from the ground, and there is
not a twig on the tree to hold by ; and it's too
big to swarm."
" Well, we must try another plan then. If
that hole isn't deep we can reach the eggs, if
any. The clay put there is quite enough to
stop a hole big enough to get my hand in, and
yours easily. Here, I'll stand stiff against the
tree. You get up ; I'll give you a hand. Thus,
put your foot in it ; up. Now, on to my shoul-
der, and make yourself as light as you can, and
be quick. Pull out the clay, and in with your
hand."
Every instruction was followed as soon as given,
and two nuthatch's eggs white, with pale red
spots were added to the collection. Jack feared
the old bird would desert the nest when she saw
the dilapidations he had caused.
" Never fear," said Bob; " she'll repair damages
before this time to-morrow; and every day for a
week after that, perhaps, if it were required. The
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nuthatch is a great favourite of mine, and I could
tell you an interesting account of a pair, if we had
time. I will as we go home, if you like. Now,
we must use our eyes more than our tongues."
Jack asked his companion what, in particular,
they were to look for ? The reply he obtained was
to the effect that he (Bob) knew there were many
wood-pigeons, or, more properly speaking, ring-
doves the cushats or queests of the northern dis-
tricts of England nesting about in the wood ;
that their nests were very easily found, for the
most part ; for that though oftentimes placed in
the head of a pollard, or the top of an ivy-covered
tree, yet very frequently also they were built in
much such places as the jay's nest, which the
keeper had shown them ten days or a fortnight
since, and constructed after much the same manner;
being little more than loose platforms of sticks and
roots, through which daylight appeared in many
places. It appeared that Bob was quite right in
speaking of the ringdoves as numerous, and their
nests as probably not scarce in the Spinney, for
the next ten or fifteen minutes presented no less
than three to the eyes of our two young friends.
Two of these were, so to speak, suspended on
branches extending horizontally, or nearly so, and
did not, in the least degree, suggest the idea of a
wish for concealment on the builder's part. The
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third was in an ivied tree-top, and was only dis-
covered by the noisy flight from it of the pigeon,
and the consequent ascent of Jack to investigate.
" The country boys will tell you/' said Bob,
" that if you touch, or even breathe upon their
eggs, the ring-doves will desert their nest. I
only know this about it, that the year before last,
to try if it were so, I put the eggs from a ring-
dove's nest into my mouth, and in due time they
were hatched, notwithstanding ; and I dare say are
very thriving ring-doves at this day."
Jack was curious to know if no more than two
eggs were ever laid by a ring-dove, and why only
two were laid by the pigeons, and twelve to twenty
by a partridge.
" I never saw nor heard of more than two in a
nest ; and, very rarely, only one. Why the pigeons
should only rear two I cannot tell. I should think
it is, because their habits are such, and their wari-
ness so great, comparatively few of them are de-
stroyed. Why, a covey of partridges in September
will let you walk right in among 'em, and on to
them, all but ; and I've often heard of and seen
once or twice a covey cut up by a shooter, so
that not one bird in ten was left at half an hour's
end. And then, too, suppose you see some par-
tridges some fine morning feeding on a stubble,
and a bit of turnips or potatoes a few yards off,
152 WALK THE SIXTH.
instead of flying away as soon as they see you, if
they move at all, it is to run under the turnip-
tops ; and once there, wait till you come up with
your murdering gun. But catch a ring-dove at
any such folly. There is but one time in the year
when it will let you come near it if it sees you,
and that's when the hen is sitting. You may
walk right under her, and stare at her, and she'll
hardly stir ; and the cock will let you come within
20 or 30 yards, and then only fly 30 or 40 more,
and wait till you approach again, perhaps. But
at any other time of the year, if you want to get
near a ring-dove, what you have got to take care
of is, that it neither sees you nor smells you. I
never knew one in an open stubble or turnip-field
let any one get within three or four times the
distance a gun will carry, provided only he is not
concealed by any fence or wall. And once off,
see if the woodpigeons are likely to pitch again
anywhere within sight ; and then, too, if you get
a shot by coming upon them unawares, they are
not very fond of acting so as to let you get a
second. Suppose the gentlemen, who will come
here to shoot pheasants as soon as the leaves
are well off, were to save their shot for ring-doves
instead, how many would they get ? Why, if
there were ten for every single pheasant in the
wood when the first shot was fired, there would
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not be one left after the tenth ; and every shot
after that, the day through, would be but a chance
one. Then, too, the pigeon is in little danger
from the cat, the fox, the foulmart, the stoat, and
the like, and even from the hawk, comparatively ;
while the partridge is all day and all night subject
to surprises from all these, except the hawk by
night. I have sometimes thought these were
reasons why the ring-dove and other pigeons
should lay only two eggs, and such birds as the
partridge and grouse, from seven or eight up to
twenty. At all events, it seems clear, from all I
have heard, that the ring-doves do increase won-
derfully, wherever new homes for them are created
by the growth of young plantations to sufficient
age and size to shelter them. I heard my father
telling of two cases, one in Berwickshire and
another in Norfolk, where thirty or forty years
ago one could hardly see half-a-dozen ring-doves
a day in certain parts of those counties, and now
you may see almost as many hundreds in a single
flock there ; and all from the extensive plantings
of fir-trees which had been made within the last
thirty or forty years. But, I say, Jack," Bob sud-
denly broke out, " we're forgetting business sadly.
It's all tongue, I doubt, and no eyes. Besides,
we ought to be thinking about the gamekeeper."
Acting on this thought, they moved on steadily
154 WALK THE SIXTH.
in the direction of that corner of the wood near to
which they were to meet Banks. The occasional
whirr of a pheasant, or hasty scud of a hare, or more
deliberate motion of a rabbit, or possibly the rapid
gallop up a tree of a squirrel disturbed by them
in their passage through the wood, constituted
all, in the shape of adventure, which met them
for some time. Once or twice Bob had paused
for a moment or two, and seemed to be listening
intently, and then went on without comment.
Now he stopped again, and presently said,
" I am sure I hear a tapping. I thought I did
before. There's a woodpecker at work not far
from here."
It was no woodpecker, however, as they pre-
sently saw, on emerging into a part of the wood
where there were only a few trees, but abundant
undergrowth of hazels and other brushwood ; for
Bob's eye soon detected a nuthatch, with its
slate- blue back and yellowish orange breast, and
then its mate, tapping away vigorously every few
seconds with their hammer-like action of their
\vhole bodies. There they were, creeping rather
than climbing about the trees ; now head up, now
down, now transversely of the tree-trunk, and all
with the same apparent ease and convenience to
themselves. Jack was not the least tired of
watching them, when, after some five minutes so
THE HOBBY. 155
spent, Bob reminded him of their " meet" at two
o'clock. They began to push through the brush-
wood again, though, and had nearly reached the
angle they were making for, when they heard the
sound of a gun, rather more to their left. Making
hastily to the boundary fence of the wood, they
sawthe gamekeeper, at no great distance, reloading
his gun ; and a few minutes served to bring them
up with Robert Banks, who was just picking up a
small hawk he had shot, and which he said had
baffled him again and again in his attempts to trap
it ; but which had now fallen a victim to its rash-
ness in coming back to its prey. He had seen it
strike a young rabbit, but had driven it away a
moment or two afterwards, though not able to get
near enough to get a shot at it.
' ' I thought," he said, " if I left the rabbit alone,
and hid myself here, he'd be back in ten minutes
or a quarter of an hour, so I waited, and there he
is ; a very mischievous fellow among young game,
and Pm glad Pve got him. I got his mate a week
ago, at her nest ; but I never could get a crack at
him, and he wouldn't look at a bait."
" It's a hobby, isn't it?" asked Bob.
' ' Yes," replied the keeper ; " and I sent James
Watt up a day or two ago to get the eggs ;
they're down at my lodge, three of them, though
rather sat upon, I fear."
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He then proceeded to tell them what he had
referred to in his note. He had found a wood-
cock's nest with three eggs, which he believed
were deserted ; at all events, they were welcome
to them. They were close to a drive among a lot
of dead leaves, about 200 yards from where
they now stood : " and then/' he went on to say,
"as I was watching for a jay, the day before yester-
day, just at the edge of the wood down yonder,
below the warren wall, I saw three wild pigeons
light on the warren about thirty yards from the
wood boundary. I didn't notice them particularly,
but happening to cast my eye that way again
after two or three minutes, I could see but
one out of the three ; and looking at that
more noticingly, I saw it was a stock dove,
not a wood pigeon. The next minute there were
two, and then only one again, and then all three,
who soon took wing and flew away ; but not far
or for long, it appeared, for within a quarter of an
hour they came back again, but now there were
four of them. Not long after this I got my jay,
and the pigeons of course flew away at the report j
but five went though only four came. I was now
sure of what I only suspected before; I mean, that
these birds either had eggs or young in some of
the old rabbit holes; and going out to see, I found
two holes with young in, and one with eggs ; and
WOODCOCK'S NEST. 157
I thought you'd like to see them just as they
are."
"Indeed we should/' said both boys; and in less
than five minutes they had the pleasure of feeling
the little birds, still quite featherless, in their
nests, and securing the two eggs for their col-
lection.
" Now/' said the keeper, " let's go for the wood-
cock's eggs."
These too were taken, but before the boys pro-
ceeded to secure them, Banks recommended them
to blow them ; for he thought they were rotten,
and if so, the agitation consequent on their being
carried far might so act upon their contents as to
cause them to burst. " I once carried home three
or four grouse eggs that I took out of a deserted
nest," he added, " and before they had been in
the house twelve hours two of them burst, and
another within two days."
Acting on his suggestion, they found he was
quite right in his surmise. They were quite rotten,
and had been so some time.
" Ah !" said he, " I thought the nest looked as
if it hadn't had its owner near it lately to take
care of it."
He had known of a few other cases of a wood-
cock laying eggs, but had only known of one in-
stance in which the young were brought off;
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though he believed young woodcocks bred in the
country were not very rare in some preserves.
Banks next went on to say he had remarked
a tree which,, he was about sure, contained a wood-
pecker's nest. He hoped and believed it was the
great spotted woodpecker, for he had seen a pair
about the wood for some days ; and besides, Watt
had got them three or four eggs of the green wood-
pecker from a nest in Turley Wood. " He told me
he had to take a chisel and mallet to get at them,
and the old bird would hardly leave the nest till
he had opened a hole big enough to get his hand
and arm in, and then she flew out at another hole.
The eggs, he said, lay on nothing but a few chips,
and raspings like, of decayed wood ; and the make-
shift for a nest was the whole length of his arm
down the trunk of the tree below the entrance
hole. As for our nest," he continued, "I've got
my little saw, and we'll soon have a look into it.
You can easily tell by the size of the eggs, even
if we don't see the bird herself, whether they are
the black and white woodpecker's or not."
About twenty minutes of steady walking brought
them to the tree he had named ; about ten more
sufficed to show the delighted boys four shining
white eggs, lying on much such another nest as
the keeper had just before described the green
woodpecker's as being ; and to complete it all,
WOODPECKER'S NEST. 159
just after the segment the keeper had sawn out of
the tree had been replaced, and he had just
shouldered his gun previously to moving aw ay, they
had the pleasure of seeing the black and white
woodpecker fly into an adjoining tree, and then
almost to the very entrance to the hollow contain-
ing her nest, before she perceived her visitors.
Acknowledging them only with a screech, " she
cut her lucky rather unceremoniously," as Bob
remarked.
The keeper now requested the boys to accom-
pany him to his house, as he had the hobby's eggs,
and the green woodpecker's also, there ; besides
which he had two wild duck's eggs, one teal's,
three grouse's, and, if they liked, half a score, or
a whole one, of pheasants' eggs, all warranted
rotten. Bob and his cousin could hardly believe
in the extent of their good fortune and the keeper's
kindness, and they trudged on merrily by his side
to his house. But we must defer to another
chapter the account of what they saw there, and
the conversation on their road home, merely add-
ing here, that on finding what Banks had to show
them, they were excessively glad that, owing to
the lengthening of the days, they had now an ad-
ditional hour before evening roll-call, it being fixed
at six now until the end of the half year.
CHAPTER IX.
Walk the Sixth continued Pheasant Breeding The Badger
The White-tailed Eagle Capture of another Badger.
THE first few minutes after their arrival at the
keeper's house were taken up in stowing away the
magnificent additions he enabled them to make to
their egg-treasures. They took three of the phea-
sant's eggs, which, with those of the grouse, they
blew first, an operation which even the sturdy Bob
was excessively glad to get completed. These
large-sized eggs took up so much room that their
egg-box was inadequate to contain all they had to
carry home. The keeper helped them out of their
difficulty by bringing for their use an empty wad-
ding-box, and two or three cap-boxes, the contents
of which had been exploded in his service long
since. Bob thought these latter, with the help
of a little cotton wool, would be the very thing ;
and on trial, found that the nuthatch's eggs
would travel together with the woodcock's in the
snuggest way possible in one of them, while another
STOCKDOVES. 161
would contain the stockdove's eggs. As they -were
packing these last. Jack inquired if wild pigeons
of that species always made their nest in deserted
rabbit burrows ? Banks replied
" Certainly not. I have known them build in
the thick bushy heads of pollard trees, and some-
times even on the ground under a thick furze
bush ; and once I saw one in a hollow tree. I
think they are on the increase, too. There are
certainly more here than there used to be. 1 be-
lieve it is the same in Norfolk ; and an old friend
of mine, who is now gamekeeper on a nobleman's
moors in Yorkshire, told me when I saw him a
little while ago, that about eight years ago he shot
one, and had to ask the parson who knew a good
deal about birds what it was ; while, last winter,
he said he saw them ten or a dozen together. One
evening in December he was going home after a
day's shooting, and happening to go near a fir
plantation, he saw a number of wild pigeons taking
up their lodgings for the night in it. He went in
to obtain a shot, and the first he fired brought
down two stockdoves. And he afterwards had
occasion to notice that a party of these birds
usually arrived first in the plantation, about roost-
ing time ; the ringdoves not arriving till twenty
minutes or half an hour later. He found, too,
that though these two birds roosted together, and
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162 WALK THE SIXTH.
so indiscriminately that he more than once killed
one of each sort at the same shot, yet they certainly
had not been feeding together during the day ; the
crops of the ringdoves were full, even to bursting
one or two did burst with the force of the fall
of holly berries, while those of the stockdove were
fairly supplied with the seeds of the wild mustard,
two varieties of which grew with sad abundance in
the fields of a slovenly-managed farm about two
miles off. He noticed this in noticing that both
birds were apt to disgorge part of the contents of
their crops when not shot quite dead. He con-
nected that I don't know whether rightly or not
with their accustomed habit of feeding their
young ; i.e., by disgorging food, already partly di-
gested, from their own crops to the throats of the
young birds. I should think, though, there may
be a connexion between the two habits."
Jack's next question was, how he came to have
so many pheasants' eggs.
" My answer to that question," said the game-
keeper, " will be best given out of doors. We
have always reared a good many pheasants here
under hens, but for that purpose we usuallj
brought in eggs which had been laid in the woods,
or hedge-rows, or copses about ; as many of these
outlying nests are in very insecure places, and
there was very small likelihood the broods would
PHEASANTRY. 163
be brought safely off, or, if brought off, reared.
Thus we always had some few pheasants' eggs that
were addle. But the last year or two I have been
trying a new plan."
As he finished speaking, he got through a sort
of stile inserted in a narrow opening in a very
high and thick hedge. The boys on following
him saw divers coops, with hens in them, scattered
about in various parts of an enclosure, sheltered
on three sides by like fences to the one they had
come through, and on the fourth by an overhang-
ing plantation, which clothed a sloping bank.
Close on the verge of this plantation was an ex-
tensive but very light structure, closely paled in
all round to about four or five feet high, but with
spars rising every three or four feet, from and
above the palings, to a total height of eight or
nine feet ; and where the palings ceased, there
large nets with meshes two inches square com-
menced, covering the whole in on the sides and
over the top very securely. This structure was
probably fifty or sixty yards long at least, and, as
the boys saw directly, divided into compartments,
each of which seemed to be twenty-five or thirty
feet square. But before proceeding nearer to
these enclosures, the gamekeeper drew their atten-
tion to the hens and coops. To their great plea-
sure they saw numbers of young pheasants in or
164 WALK THE SIXTH.
about several of these coops, some apparently only
a few days old, others already as big as partridges,
and beginning to show increasing length in the
tail feathers ; other hens again were sitting. The
natural habits of the young bird were attended to,
partly by the thick growth of brushwood and of
coarse herbage in and near the foot of the tall
hedges, partly by strewing quantities of brush-
wood in various places not far from the coops;
and the young pheasants of larger growth showed
their sense of the attention by betaking themselves
to the shelter and concealment so afforded, imme-
diately the keeper and the two lads showed them-
selves near them. Directing their steps now to
the large net-inclosed structure, the gamekeeper,
on reaching it, took a key from his pocket and
gave admission to himself and his companions to
the interior. Everything was quite still as they
entered ; but having closed the door, he gently
stirred a heap of loose brushwood which lay in the
centre with a stick he had in his hand. First one
hen pheasant obeyed the intimation thus given,
then a second, then a cock, and then a third hen.
As long as the visitors remained quiet, the birds,
too, either squatted in a corner or ran along the
sides of the enclosure from one corner to another;
but, if anybody stirred a step or two, they took
wing, sometimes one or two, sometimes all four
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together, and, soaring in their usual manner, were
arrested by the network above and fell back to the
ground, or perhaps clung by their feet for ten or
twenty seconds to the meshes. Beyond this en-
closure were three similar ones, each tenanted in
precisely the same way. The boys were eager to
know the meaning of all this, for they could see
no nests anywhere, and they could not divine what
good could be got by confining the pheasants
thus. The keeper explained that the pheasant
hens were dealt with on exactly the same prin-
ciple as regarded their eggs, that is as the
domestic-poultry hens ; that is to say, their eggs
were taken as soon as laid.
" If they were in the woods/' said Banks, " these
pheasant hens, one with another, might lay ten
or twelve eggs, half of which, under fortunate
circumstances, might become young pheasants.
How many eggs do you think they will lay here ?"
Neither of the boys ventured a guess.
" Well," said the keeper, " I had twelve hens
in here last year, as you see I have now, and I
took upwards of 500 eggs out, more than 400 of
which were hatched and reared ; and this year, I
think, if we go on as well as we have begun, we
shall have an average of forty-five eggs for each
pheasant hen."
The lads observed that two of the cocks had
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white rings though that word was hardly correct
as used to describe a band of white feathers, which
did not quite encircle the throat round the neck,
a little below the head, while the other two had
no such marks.
Banks said, " And if you observe, too, the hens
with those cocks, as well as the cocks themselves,
are rather smaller than these, and, to my eyes, the
plumage of both sexes is rather paler than that of
these here. Sir Cuthbert got those birds from
Hertfordshire, hearing that this plan answered best
with them ; but I don't see any difference myself."
" You must have a deal of trouble with them,"
said Bob.
" No, not so very much, except in having hens
enough ready to set. Feeding them is simple
enough ; and we contrive to keep them tolerably
safe from vermin on the whole. We get a good
lot of ants and ants' eggs for them out of the
woods and off the moor. Did you ever see that
great hill in the Turley end of Fox- Spinney? It
would fill three large waggons, I believe ; largish
red ants they are, and can't they sting just ?"
Neither of the boys had heard of this before,
but determined they would see it before long.
Smaller ones, the materials of some of which
would have filled a wheelbarrow, of others a cart,
they had often met with, but none even nearly so
PEPPER. 167
big as the one named by Banks. Leaving what
Jack denominated the Pheasant Nursery, they
turned their steps in the direction of the Kennels,
where, however, Banks said he had something
else to show them besides dogs. The kennel was
a very complete one, and beautifully kept as well
as arranged, and the present occupants were two
brace of black setters, and five pointers, together
with a couple of retrievers. In the yard of the
kennel they were met by old Pepper, who usually
accompanied Banks wherever he went ; but who,
since the arrival of a certain new inmate of one of
the brick-walled, brick-paved compartments of the
kennel, appeared to be under the impression that
it would be a dereliction of duty if he left the
precincts. The keeper told them several instances
of this dog's sagacity and intelligence, and said
that he seemed often to reason quite as readily
and cleverly as many a country lad could do.
Among other things he mentioned was this ; that
if Pepper, when out with his master, found a
rabbit on its seat, he always waited for him to
come up before rushing at it ; and, if it so hap-
pened that the keeper came up on the same side
with himself of the thicket or fence in which the
rabbit lay, he always went round to the other side
and rushed in from thence, as if with the express
purpose of driving it out before the gun ; a ruse,
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he said, which generally succeeded. He had never
taught him this as a trick, or in any way. It was
evidently the result of the dog's own observation
and reasoning, and his judgment founded there-
upon. He had seen the same thing only in one
other dog, and that was an old and very steady
pointer, which had been shot to seven or eight
seasons before it took the practice up. Pepper
acknowledged his master's approach and his own
consequent delight, by constructing three quarters
of a circle with (or of) himself ; in which strange
proceeding his stumpy tail and hinder quarters
performed some rather inscrutable but decidedly
queer evolutions ; and then went with him in the
direction of but rather in advance, as if leading
him to the quarters occupied by the strange arrival.
" Aye, master," his demeanour seemed to inti-
mate, " come on ; you'll find that queer customer
all right. I've seen to that."
On looking into the part of the kennel they were
thus conducted to, the lads saw, what there was
light enough to make out was a greyish mass, with
a white stripe down the middle of it, flanked by a
dark one on either side, squeezed up into one of
the far corners.
" Why, what is it, Robert? " asked Bob.
"Wait a minute, sir, till I dislodge him from
his corner, and you'll soon see."
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As he spoke, the keeper gave the creature a poke
with his stick, which caused it to leave its position
and shuffle off rather quickly into the other corner,
where it was both nearer to the boys and under a
better light for exhibiting itself.
" Why, it's a badger," cries Bob ; " I'm sure it
is, though I never saw a real one before only
pictures. Where did you get him ? and how ?"
" Why, sir," said Banks, smiling at Bob's
eagerness, and Jack's seeming inclination to give
the wild beast a ' ' good offing/' " I found his
hole in Turley Wood, the day before yesterday. It
iras a moonlight night, as luck would have it,
that night ; so I took old Pepper here, and Jem
Watt's Madge, and Jem himself, and having
fixed a good strong bag, with a running slide
there it hangs, sir, behind you so that he should
bolt into it, as well as into his hole, if he came
home in a hurry, I got up, three or four feet high,
into a bushy tree close by, but so that I could
jump down in a moment. I had left Jem with
the dogs, with orders to go very quietly till he
got down to that part of the wood we call Highfield
Thicks, and where I had seen, the same day, that
a badger had been working lately, and I thought
by that time I should have got my preparations
complete. It was light enough to see that it
wanted a quarter to nine when I got into the
170 WALK THE SIXTH.
tree ; and I hadn't been there five minutes, before
I heard Jem begin to cheer on the dogs. In a
minute more I heard Pepper's tongue, and I knew
he was on some vermin by the note he gave. Almost
in less time than it takes to tell, I heard a rushing
through the bushes coming nearer and nearer, with
the yelps of both dogs a little way behind. In
half a minute more, a badger, followed close by
another, cut across the glade in front of where I
was perched, and the foremost bolted into the bag
and tied himself up in it beautifully in half a second.
The other was dumbfoundered for a moment or two
at finding the way to her hole stopped so strangely,
but started afresh in no time ; and the dogs coming
up ran her to earth in another hole among some
rocks, where we couldn't dig her, about 200
yards distant. I soon swung the one I'd got over
my shoulder, and there he is safe. I think he
can't get out here ; these hard, well -laid white
bricks will baffle all his efforts ; though I did
know one once get out of a paved court-yard. He
contrived to get a flag up somehow it must have
been a loose one, I should think not far from the
wall, and he precious soon had a hole burrowed
out under it, and walked off. I think we shall get
the other to-night. Jem came down this morning
to say she was still about, and he thought she
rested regularly in the earth she took to that night
Bagging the Badger. p. 170
HEDGEHOGS. 171
we got this one. And if we can get her, we shall
take them up to the Park to-morrow, as Sir Cuth-
bert has, for some time, wanted a pair to send sure
I think it was to Liverpool or Birmingham, or some
of these towns, where they have a grand zoological
garden, but no badgers in, he said." Banks
added further, " This chap isn't at all unwilling to
eat, though, I dare say, he would soon pine to
death if kept long here, and alone. He's rather
like the hedgehog for his appetite. He has eaten
three mice, half a rat, and two eggs, since he has
been in here."
"What was that about the hedgehog, keeper?"
asked Jack.
" Oh ! sir, only that they will begin to eat as
soon as they feel hungry, if you catch them and
put them in confinement. One I kicked against
in my rounds one night, I brought home with me
instead of killing, as I suppose I ought. The very
next night I let him out in the kitchen where
I was sitting alone, and gave him a bit of raw
mutton. He set to at it in a minute or two, and
made a strange piggy champing as he ate. He
would eat mice, and small birds, and small eggs; but
a hen's egg puzzled him, except it were cracked :
then he made short work of it. Beef or mutton,
too, he liked, but not the fat ; he never touched
that. He was very fond of getting under the fire-
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place among the ashes, when the fire was gone out.
And if I put him on the table, he would run off
without hesitation, rolling himself up in an
instant as he began to fall, and unrolling as
quickly, and scuttling off after he had reached the
floor. I kept him several weeks, for I had no
heart to kill him, and at last I gave him to a gen-
tleman to turn down in his garden, where I hope
he is happy now. Do you know what my York-
shire friend told me was the name for hedgehog in
use in his part ? It sounded queer to me ' pricky-
backed otchen ; ' that is, urchin, I suppose."
"Why should you think about killing him,
Robert?" asked Bob.
" Why, sir, I'm gamekeeper, you see : and
there's no doubt they destroy the eggs of game if
they find them; and young rabbits and hares,
young partridges and pheasants, also, would be
anything but safe with them. I knew of one that
killed several young turkeys : and another it was
a young lady's pet, that one killed, and ate
two young ringdoves, nearly fullgrown, which
belonged to the same fair owner. The murder was
brought quite home to Hedge-piggy, I suppose.
He couldn't have pleaded an alibi that was
certain for they were all three shut up in the
same room ; but I believe, not only was this so,
and no possibility for any other creature to get in
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when the first dove was killed ; but in the case of
the second, he was caught "red-hand," as the
Scots used to call it, when a man was taken in
the very act almost of committing a murder. So
you see, sir, it's my business to kill hedgehogs.
But I don't like it. They seem so harmless like ;
so different from those vicious looking stoats
and foumarts, which look regular built for mis-
chief and slaughter.'''
The boys now began to talk of going to the house
for their egg-box, and beginning their journey
homewards, but Banks said he had still something
else to show them, which he thought they would
be sorry to have missed seeing ; and taking out
his watch, assured them they had an hour and
thirty-five minutes good yet. So they accom-
panied him to a sort of spare room or loft, over
what might be called the kitchen of the kennel
for great cookings were necessary in preparing the
food of so many valuable dogs and there they were
gratified indeed at seeing a very magnificent living
specimen of the "White-tailed eagle. He appeared
to be tolerably tame, and partly reconciled to con-
finement. He allowed Banks to approach him,
and even to caress him also, which he did not seem
altogether to dislike. Banks gave his history as fol-
lows : " I saw that fellow and another, apparently
a little less than himself, about the warren and the
174 WALK THE SIXTH.
Common several times in the early part of the
year. The warrener tried to destroy them. But
he could not succeed in trapping either of them.
He shot at them two or three times, however, and
kept such a vigilant look-out for them they
seemed to get shy of going there. I had tried
my luck, too, but it was no go : they were so
very vigilant. At last, as I was coming home
over the Common, not far from the Marsh, one
afternoon, about five or six weeks ago, I disturbed
'em at a feast on a dead sheep. I saw they
weren't satisfied yet, they had got so little of the
flesh. I knew, therefore, they would be back as
soon as the coast was clear. I knew Watt was
within half a mile of me, somewhere, as I had sent
him to set two or three traps near Spinney Spill.
So I put my fingers in my mouth, and gave him
my signal to come to me quick like this," put-
ting his fingers in his mouth and producing a
whistle which went through and through the
boys' heads, but which the eagle seemed to take
very little notice of.
" He was with me in less than ten minutes, and
I told him to get up all the traps he could lay
hands on in the course of half an hour. Well, he
came back with seven. During his absence I had
seen the eagles at a distance, evidently on the
look-out to ascertain if they could safely return
THE RAVENS. 175
and gratify their appetite with the tempting
mutton I had dislodged them from. No sooner
had I the traps within reach than I began, with
Jem's help, to set them under the turf you know
how I showed you one day not long since ?" he
said to Bob, who nodded assent, and only opened
his mouth a moment after to say to Jack, who was
evidently most anxious to ask how it was done,
" Wait a bit. He'll show you after " " under
the turf in a sort of ring all round the carcase.
We did it as neatly and with as little handling of
the traps and turf as possible, and rubbing our
hands on the sheep now and then to mislead the
eagles' quick sense of smell. We were perhaps half
an hour about it. All our traps were too small for
the job; but I hoped if one did get caught, that
before he could succeed in struggling out he might
literally ' put his foot in it* a second time ; and
just so it happened. Jem and I went and laid
up we hid ourselves close I can tell you ; a good
deal closer than if we had been laying up for men
poachers and we hadn't been safely stowed away
ten minutes before we heard a croak, and another,
and then a third. Says I to Jem, ' that's a bad
job, Jem ; there's the ravens coming. I wouldn't
like to catch one o' them. What's to be done ?'
Well, I got up just so as to be able to see a little
further about, and sure enough the ravens were
176 WALK THE SIXTH.
both there, and it was clear, too, they meant to
have a bit of mutton for supper. I was just
going to get up and frighten them away, when
Jem, who had been looking out too, pulled me
down, saying low in my ear, ' Lay quiet it's all
right.' And so it was. He had caught sight of
the eagles in another direction, and he knew well
enough the ravens would see them too in two
seconds, and take themselves off pretty quick, to
wait till their betters had served themselves. I
was hardly down in my lair again, before, with a
couple of remonstrance-sounding croaks, Ralph
and his wife who were by this time very near
the carrion soared up into the air again and
sailed off. Well, to make a long story short, in
I should think five minutes at the outside, both
eagles were fast by the leg. Jem and I weren't
long, you may guess, in getting up and cutting
off as hard as we could to the place. My word,
what a shindy there was. Well, the biggest of
the two got its other foot fast, and then he we
thought was quite safe. Jem couldn't help giving
a loud halloo ! when he saw this. It drew the
lesser bird's notice on us rather sooner than it
might have been otherwise, I thought ; and
making a desperate effort he broke the cord of
the trap just as we got within five yards of him,
and went off with the steel at his toes. He was
Catching the Eagle. p. 177
TWO EAGLES TRAPPED. 177
shot though on Kerstham Common, about seven
miles off, two days after, with the trap still on,
and I have got it still. Well, the other bird made
furious play with his wings, but his legs were
held rather astraddle by the two traps, and he
was almost helpless. So we threw away our
sticks, for we expected a fight, and should have
had it too if we had caught both, and weren't
long in securing him. We tied his legs and his
beak and his wings with our neckerchiefs and some
cord. His legs were torn and bloody but very
little hurt, as you can see for yourselves plainly
enough. But we hadn't finished trapping yet;
for while Jem was quite taken up with tying up
his bill rather critical work too, it was reach-
ing his hand down to pick up a piece of cord he
had laid by his side as he knelt, he put it on the
bridge of one of the other traps which hadn't been
sprung, and the next thing I saw was that he was
caught. Didn't he sing out just? As soon as
ever I had got the wings fast tied back to back, I
went to let him out ; for he durstn't let go the
eagle's head, the bill not being quite secure, to
loose himself; and it would not have been easy to
do if he had tried. He was caught just over the
knuckles and across the ball of his thumb. How-
ever he wasn't much the worse though rather
soured when I said we had caught an eagle and
N
178 WALK THE SIXTH.
an owl same day and we completed the bonds
of our captive and got him safe home. And
there he is. I fancy he'll go with the badgers
to yonder place whatever its name may be if
we are lucky enough to get Mrs. Bawsie to-night."
As he ceased speaking, the gamekeeper pro-
duced out of one of his capacious pockets a half-
grown rabbit, which he offered to the eagle. It was
seized without ceremony, and made eagle food of
in an incredibly short time. Greatly interested
with what they had to-day seen and heard, our
two young friends went without further delay
to the keeper's lodge; and, resuming their egg-
box and pocketing the two cap-boxes and their
contents, wished Banks good-evening with many
hearty thanks, and set out on their trudge home-
wards. As they went along, they were so taken
up with talks about the badger and the eagle, and
with the expression of their wishes that they
could have witnessed the captures of which the
keeper had given such exciting accounts, and that
they could only go with him to-night to see the
other badger caught if the hunt should turn out
a successful one, and also with many mutual
congratulations on the extraordinary accessions
made this afternoon to their stock of eggs many
of them such " good" ones too ! that neither of
them had so much as a thought for the proposed
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*
history of Bob's favourite nuthatches. After a
brisk walk of rather over the hour they reached
the school, with fifteen minutes to spare. On
entering the playing ground, they were told by
two or three of their schoolfellows, and a moment
after by an under-master, that Dr. Noble had been
inquiring for them a quarter of an hour before,
and had left orders that as soon as they came in
they were to be sent to his study immediately.
Rather wondering, but having no reason to make
themselves uneasy at this unexpected summons,
they hastened to the study. Their knock was
immediately responded to by the Doctor's sharp
" Come in."
Opening the door and entering, they were re-
ceived with a smile, and with a " Well, what luck
to-day?" Scarcely stopping to notice their "Very
good indeed, sir," he went on to say, that Sir
Cuthbert Graham had been with him in the course
of the afternoon, and had asked him to give them
leave to go up to the Park on Monday afternoon,
to spend Tuesday, and return on Wednesday ; that
he had consented very willingly, as their good
conduct merited the indulgence, and he thought
that their visit would be agreeable to Sir Cuth-
bert, who didn't the least, he said, seem only in-
tending to do a civil thing, but rather to expect
to receive pleasure as well as give it. The Doctor
180 WALK THE SIXTH.
went on to say further, that his visitor had asked
if Robert Benson and his cousin were anywhere
about; and that he (the Doctor) had said, "No they
were, he believed, with Robert Banks, either on the
Common or in the wood." " Ah ! that puts me in
mind," rejoined Sir Cuthbert ; " I am going up to
Banks myself about eight o'clock. He caught a
badger two or three nights since, and thinks, I
understand, he may get its mate to-night. I
should like to see the capture, and so I mean
to be there. Would my young friends like to
go, do you think? And would it break school
rules very badly if you permitted them to go
with me ? I will bring them back not later than
ten or half-past. They can go with me in the
dog-cart." " So," continued Dr. Noble, " I told
him I should not throw any objections in your
way ; and you must get your suppers and be ready
for him when he calls at half-past seven. You
must tell me of your egg successes to-day, at
another time." He dismissed them with these
words, and they lost no time in getting to their
places in school at the first sound of the bell.
It need hardly be said they were quite ready
when Sir Cuthbert drove to the door. They were
quickly in their places Bob beside the Baronet,
and Jack behind with the groom in obedience to
the " Quick, up with you you here, Robert/ ' which
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followed hard on their kind friend's hearty " How
are you, boys ? All right, eh ?" and quickly they
rattled along the Whaldon road ; then they turned
up the cross road, and over the bridge spanning
the Wassett. Jem Watts, on a stout pony,
touched his cap as Sir Cuthbert drove up to the
gamekeeper's lodge ; and in answer to his master's
inquiry, " Banks gone on to the wood, I sup-
pose ?" quickly replied, " Yes, sir ; he'll be wait-
ing for you at the Turley Wood gate." The old
bay was stepping out again the next moment, and,
in a few minutes more, on into the Turley road,
which began to be hilly and less good than were
those nearer to the town. However, it was only
about twenty minutes past eight when they came
up with Banks, at the point named by Watts.
" Well, Banks, will you get her, do you
think?"
" Oh ! yes, Sir Cuthbert ; I make no doubt of
it. She's shifted her feeding ground a little, but
we shall be sure to get her. Here's Watt coming
up with Pepper and Madge, and I've ordered
Stevenson to go down to the Thicks, and, as soon
as he hears Watt's whistle, to loose his terriers.
Watt is to go down here more towards the Bottom,
where she was rooting last night and the night
before. And if you please, Sir Cuthbert, we ought
to be moving too."
182 WALK THE SIXTH.
" Very well, then, let us be off. "Walk him
about, Thomas" to the groom " till I come
back here."
At the gamekeeper's request, after the first ten
minutes of their walk, they proceeded very silently
and warily, and in such a direction as to come
upon the earth, newly occupied by the badger,
from behind. Stationing Sir Cuthbert and the
two boys to whom he had found an opportunity
of whispering how he would have liked asking
them to come, if he had thought it could be
allowed on a rock above the hole, but so that they
could see the badger for a space of fifteen yards
before it reached its den, if it came from the side
he expected it, he proceeded to adjust the bag and
its slide, and to ensconce himself on one side. He
had barely time to finish doing so when the hunt
was up, and in five minutes more the badger was
captured, the three visitors enjoying a capital
sight of her rush, after a momentary pause at the
edge of the open, into the earth. Their return
was without incident, and effected before the time
Sir Cuthbert had named.
CHAPTER X.
Visit to Sir Cuthbert The Fowl on the Lake Sollington
Heronry and Abbey The Buck-stone Fly-rods Crossbill's
Nest Return to Elmdon.
IN due time, on Monday, the groom made his
appearance with the dog-cart, and our two young
friends were speedily conveyed to Wrilton Park.
Sir Cuthbert had just ridden in from a round of
visits among his tenantry, when the dog- cart
drove up, and Bob and his cousin were at once
taken in, through the gardens, to the morning
room, where his mother was sitting, actively em-
ployed with some elaborate process in knitting.
Sir Cuthbert was a bachelor of less than thirty
years of age, and, as yet, report after a few
years of hesitation on the subject had decided not
to give him to any of the ladies in the county or
out of it, of suitable or unsuitable age, position,
and fortune. His mother, a lady of nearly sixty,
and his only surviving sister, usually lived with
him ; but the latter was at present on a visit to a
friend in Yorkshire. Lady Graham received the
184 VISIT TO SIR CUTHBERT.
two lads with a simple kindness which had the
effect of setting Edwards at ease in a few minutes.
Bob, who was an old acquaintance of her Lady-
ship, and evidently a great favourite, was presently
rattling on with some pet topic, in answer to an
inquiry or two from the lady, much as if he had
been with his own mother ; and Jack, who had
hitherto only spoken when he was spoken to, soon
caught himself originating some remark, and almost
wondering the next moment how he ventured to
do it. He had seen at once that Lady Graham was
what many people would call a very grand lady.
She had been very beautiful, and time had dealt
as gently with her as he could. What her figure
she was tall and her manner had lost in grace
was compensated by dignity ; and yet Jack's con-
clusion, in less than the fifteen minutes, during
which Sir Cuthbert was occupied with answering
an open note given him (soon after his entrance)
by his mother was, that she was much the nicest
lady he had ever seen, next to his cousin Emily ;
and he could not make out how it was, but that it
was much the same to him as if he had known
her ever since he was quite a little fellow. When
his note was finished, Sir Cuthbert said he was
going down to the lake to feed his waterfowl, and
the boys could either go with him, or, if they
preferred it, spend the hour before dinner in the
THE LAKE. 185
large hall, where was a large collection of well-
stuffed birds, together with a nearly complete
collection of British birds' eggs.
" Oh, live birds before dead ones, please, Sir
Cuthbert," was Bob's instant reply, and Jack,
evidently enough, was not a dissentient.
They set out accordingly, and a proper supply
of corn and bread was laid in as they passed the
gardener's lodge, together with four or five mice,
which had paid the penalty of their lives for the
attempted plunder of beds of peas, and which,
from the nature of the trap they had been caught
in, bore the same resemblance to field-mice as
they usually appear, that the Norfolk biffins of
the confectioner's shop do to the same apple while
still ungathered from the tree. Proceeding to a
part of the lake where the water gradually shal-
lowed to the edge, and the tiny waves lipped over
on to a narrow bed of fine gravel, Sir Cuthbert
blew a small whistle of peculiar tone, and the
next moment some dozens of waterfowl, of various
sorts, came flapping or swimming along at as great
a speed as they could severally command, to par-
take of the feast they had learned to associate
with the sound of that whistle. Summer ducks,
teal, wild ducks, Canada geese, China geese,
Spanish geese, even the lone black goose, and a
variety of others were there, who were soon gob-
186 VISIT TO SIR CUTHBERT.
bling away as fast and eagerly as possible, some
in the water, some out on the sloping bank.
Three swans swam about statelily in the back-
ground, hardly offering to approach the common
throng ; but, after a few minutes given to feeding
and inspecting his feathered pets, Sir Cuthbert
moved a few paces lower down the lake, to a point
where the water was deeper, and the lads ob-
served, that as he moved, the swans kept moving
on as he did, until at last, as he paused on the
bank, first one and then the other came close in,
and took pieces of bread out of his hand, return-
ing to him again and again, until his stock was
exhausted. Bob and his cousin, however, were
greatly amused at the bold familiarity, or rather
impudence, of some of the smaller, quick- diving
varieties 'of water-fowl. Each swan, on getting a
piece of bread, if he found it too big, as was
usually the case, to be swallowed at once, put it
into the water to work at with his bill ; as he did
so, one of the small fellows who (when Sir Cuth-
bert moved onwards) seemed to know very well that
the swans' turn was coming, and speedily followed
in their wake, would dash in and secure a bit,
perhaps diving the instant it did so, especially if
the swan perceived and resented the act of depre-
dation. Once, when the largest of the swans per-
haps teased by the toughness of a piece of crust,
THE WATERFOWL. 187
which baffled all his shakings and peckings, and,
perhaps also rather irritated by the very close
attention of one of the small fry, which watched
his every motion, ready to dart in on the slightest
chance lost hold of his crust in endeavouring to
put his troublesome satellite to flight, another
who was close at hand seized the crust (as big as
his own head) and made off with it, to be in his
turn followed, and teased, and assaulted at every
turn by half-a-dozen more as quick and active as
himself. If he dived, one or more dived too ; the
moment he re-appeared above the surface, as many
more were ready to pounce upon him, and con-
tinue their very pertinacious attentions. Then,
perhaps, he would lose the great bit, and himself
become one of the pursuers. And this continued,
until at last even the tough crust, dived with,
dabbled with, haggled at, became little more than
soft pulp, and was finally disposed of. The boys
were so taken up with the interest of more than
one such chase as this, that they had forgotten
there was another bird known personally to
one of them, and by description to the other
sure to be waiting at no great distance for his share
of the dole and of their attention. They were
reminded of it, however, by hearing Sir Cuthbert
say, " What, Black Jack, are you there ? I thought
you wouldn't be far off." And there he was,
188 VISIT TO SIR CUTHBKRT.
taking great care to maintain a respectful distance
between himself and his owner, and refusing all
inducements to lessen that distance by even one of
his own short, paddling footsteps. The flattened
mouse, suspended by its tail from Sir Cuthbert's
finger and thumb, was eyed with great appetency ;
but it was evidently, " I won't come for it you
must throw it to me." And, when thrown, it was
disposed of with marvellous celerity, as were also
the remaining ones; which done, Black Jack
withdrew to the water, and completed the meal
by sundry sips of water. Returning to the house,
the lads had little more than time enough to
prepare themselves before the dinner-bell sounded,
and they found themselves sitting down at table
just about the time they would have been answer-
ing their names had they been at the School.
The evening was most luxuriously spent, with
Audubon's Birds before them, or in listening to an
occasional anecdote or illustration of some of the
bird-portraits before them, from Sir Cuthbert, who
kindly laid aside his book or his newspaper more
than once, to direct their attention to some curious
or interesting particular, or to answer some ques-
tion which was referred to him by one or other of
his youthful guests.
Nearly two hours, before breakfast the follow-
ing morning, were given to an examination of
RIDE TO SOLLINGTON. 189
the cabinet of eggs in the hall, and Jack's delight
at seeing a suite of guillemot's eggs, comprising
not less than thirty-five or forty specimens, no two
of which but were more or less unlike, was very
great. One or two eggs Bob pointed out as cost-
ing considerable sums, from the difficulty of
meeting with them at all; others he said were
very precious as having been actually laid in Eng-
land, though the birds that produced them did
not usually, or indeed otherwise than very rarely,
nest in this country. After breakfast, Sir Cuth-
bert mounted the boys on a couple of ponies,
which both of them declared were perfect, and
rode with them to Sollington Abbey, which lay
about eight miles from Wrilton Park, in the oppo-
site direction to Elmdon. Bob had often heard of
the abbey, and how beautiful and for ruins com-
plete the remains were ; but he did not know Sir
Cuthbert's object in taking them there, and what
a great pleasure he had devised for them. On
reaching the lodge at the entrance to the park, Sir
Cuthbert addressed a question to the woman who
opened the gate, and, on receiving her reply, in-
stead of following the drive to the mansion, now
known as The Abbey, struck off to the left, and
cantered across the turf in the direction of some
buildings, glimpses of which soon began to appear
between the tree trunks. Bob, whose acquain-
190 VISIT TO SIR CUTHBERT.
tance with a pony's back had begun at a very early
age, and who was almost as much at home there
as on his form at school, enjoyed this scamper im-
mensely. Jack, whose riding was much more of
the riding-school description, was not half so
happy, or, rather, perhaps, comfortable; particu-
larly when a herd of deer, suddenly disturbed by
their rapid approach, galloped away, some of them
leaping four or five feet from the ground as they
did so : for his pony manifested a considerable in-
clination to have a gallop, too, and, if need were,
a little jumping as well. However, Sir Cuthbert
had his eye upon both steed and rider, and pulling
up himself, Jack's pony also stopped without much
reluctance, and they went more quietly on to the
buildings they were approaching. Here a man
was waiting to take their horses, and, as they
pulled up, a second person came up whom Sir
Cuthbert addressed as Mr. Dixon, and who, it
soon appeared, was the steward. While he was
talking to the baronet, the boys had time to take
notice of the place they had reached ; they saw
that the buildings on either hand formed part of
an extensive and very complete modern farmstead,
and Jack's wonder was rather raised a few minutes
after, on entering one of the principal structures
whence a considerable din had, from the time they
came within hearing distance, continued to issue
STEAM THRASHING-MACHINE. 191
at finding out it was caused by a thrashing-
machine, which took in sheaf after sheaf, almost
as fast as they could be fed in at one end, and
turned the dressed corn out at the other into
sacks, weighing them as they filled, and ringing a
bell to make it known as soon as it had done so ;
while from two or three other spouts the tailings
or refuse corn was thrown out, the produce of one
spout being almost utterly refuse, those of the
others less and less so. Jack was quite astonished
to see the exceeding rapidity with which sack after
sack was filled and removed, and could hardly
believe that he saw corn thrashed, dressed, and
measured, at the rate of nearly forty bushels per
hour. However, they did not stay long in the
barn, and merely looking into the engine-house
as they passed, they went on through a part of the
park from which the ruins were visible, down
a grassy slope to what looked almost like the
curve of a broadish river as they saw it from a
little distance. Turning round the corner of a
large and thick clump of trees, they saw that on
the right the water widened out into, apparently,
an extensive lake. A few seconds after, Bob
exclaimed
" There's an old heron ! and another ! and
another !"
The next moment he observed three or four
192 . VISIT TO SIR CUTHBERT.
more in motion among the trees on what he had
taken at first to be the opposite bank of the stream,
but which he now saw was an island. Then he
saw two of the birds settle on the very topmost
branches of a tree. All at once it occurred to
him that these birds might breed here, as he saw
so many of them, and he turned to Sir Cuthberl
to ask.
"Yes," said he, smiling; "this is Sollington
Heronry. I thought you had not heard of it
from something you said over Audubon last night,
and so I planned this surprise for you. Mr.
Dixon, here, has the key of the boats, and we will
go over and see if we can be lucky enough to meet
with an egg or two. Here is one of the farm
lads coming down the hill behind us, who will do
the climbing part of the business. Your clothes
would benefit but little by the process if you
attempted it."
They were soon across, and great was the com-
motion among the herons at their visit. They
made out that there were not less than from forty
to fifty nests there, and they had plentiful evi-
dence that there were young birds in some of the
nests. The boy went up to three of the nests, and
got an egg from each of two among the three, and
Jack and Bob would have gladly remained for an
hour or two watching the heavy but silent flight
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of the herons, their balancing efforts as they tried
to perch on impossible tree-tops, and every now
and then the arrival of a parent bird with the
usual fish diet for its young. However, they had
to withdraw at last, and taking leave of Mr.
Dixon at the boat-house who undertook to bring
or forward the two eggs safely to Elmdon the next
market-day they went up to the ruins of the
abbey. The greater part of the walls of the abbey
church were still standing ; the tower was nearly
perfect. The Lady Chapel wanted its roof ; but
the tracery of its windows, and all its mouldings
and quaint beautiful carvings were little injured.
The abbot's house, the cloisters, the'refectory, the
dormitory, the scriptorium, the hospitium, all were
pointed out by Sir Cuthbert, and explanations of
the different purposes of different parts of the
building, and the different styles of architecture
betokening the different times at which the dif-
ferent parts of the edifice were erected, were given
very clearly in answer to their repeated inquiries.
So taken up were they with all they were seeing
and hearing, that they quite forgot such ordinary
modern matters as eating and drinking ; nor was it
till they went in, at the bailiff's house, on their
return to the farm, and saw the bread and cheese,
and a brown jug of foaming homebrewed set out on
the wonderfully scoured table, that it occurred to
o
194 VISIT TO SIR CUTHBERT.
them to feel that they were hungry. Another
half hour saw them remounted, and on their
return to "Wrilton, but by a different road from
that by which they had come. Turning off into a
grassy lane, they cantered along till they came to
a sort of three-cornered piece of common, bordered
on two sides by wood ; skirting this, they pro-
ceeded by a bridle-road across four or five fields
into another lane. Along this, for about half a
mile, and then they began to ascend rapidly. Soon
they emerged from the lane upon a common, and
altered their direction by going a short distance
to the left along the fence of a wood. They then
went through a gate into the wood, descending
the hill a little by a very fair track. All at once,
the boys were surprised to see a huge grey mass
opening into view just before them. It was a
large mass of rock, rising up from the surface of
the soil in an open spot among the thick trees
of the wood, and on it they saw a large irregular-
shaped superincumbent mass, seemingly four or
five feet high. Sir Cuthbert told the boys to get
off, and give him their bridles, for a minute or two,
while they went and touched this upper stone : a
very little push from Bob's hand set it in motion,
and they found to their very great pleasure they
were standing before a rocking-stone. Eager in-
quiries followed as to the origin of these stones,
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Sir Cuthbert seemed to think some of them might
have been artificially adjusted, but he rather in-
clined to believe that in many cases nature was
the artificer whose handiwork these rocking-stones
were. But he seemed to have no doubt that they
had some connexion with the worship of the
original inhabitants of the land. Jack, whose
ready imagination had, after a fashion, peopled for
him the conventual ruins they had been wan-
dering among an hour or two before, with their
ancient black -robed inhabitants, now found him-
self fancying white-bearded Druids solemnizing
their mysteries on that ancient time-hallowed base,
and the savage, half-naked votaries, bending below
in abject fear ; and as figure after figure rose up in
his dream, he continued for some minutes gently
moving the stone from time to time, quite forget-
ful of Sir Cuthbert, his cousin, and his pony.
Bob had returned as quickly as he could to relieve
Sir Cuthbert from the trouble of holding his pony,
and was going to call his cousin feeling a little
ashamed of his inconsiderateness but Sir Cuth-
bert would not let him. Jack's reverie, however,
did not continue long, and, looking round, he
coloured deeply as he saw his kind friend still
patiently holding his pony; and jumping down
he hastened to him, frankly confessing his forget-
fulness, and asking pardon for the trouble he had
196 VISIT TO SIR CUTHBEKT.
thus given. He coloured deeper still as Sir
Cuthbert asked him, with a kind smile, if the
Druid had a very long white beard, and the wor-
shippers were painted very blue, and at once
owned that such visions had passed across his
thoughts, but that they were very dim and un-
defined.
" I know so little, sir," he concluded ; "I used
to read so carelessly, skipping all the parts of my
book that were what I called stupid because they
only contained explanations or descriptions. And
now I begin to find out what a foolish fellow I
was. I've skipped such lots about the religion of
the Druids and their observances, and the con-
dition of the British tribes then, that almost all I
know about them comes from some pictures I
have seen. Oh ! how I wish I knew all about
them. All would be so real to me then at such a
place as that stone."
Sir Cuthbert only told him to try and remember
what he felt now every time he began to read a
book, and to determine to get all he could from
that book. " Hundreds of men," he said, " would
give years of their lives to have found out at
Jack's age the importance of making as much as
possible of all their opportunities of acquiring
knowledge, of reading carefully and thoughtfully
whatever it might be that they thought it worth
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while to read at all. But/' he added, " you haven't
noticed quite all I brought you here to see."
And riding down to an open place abreast of
the rocky platform, he bade them observe the
landscape.
" Landscape did you say, sir," broke out Bob ;
" why, wouldn't it be as well to call it a tree-
scape ? Why, there's nothing but wood in
sight !"
"What a place for the Druids to celebrate
their worship in," thought Jack, " if all this was
oak forest and nothing else 2000 years ago."
Feeling that Sir Cuthbert quite understood him,,
and was not at all disposed to make fun of him,
he ventured the question, while Bob's eye was
still roving over the expanse of woodland scenery.
"I think it is very likely," was his friend's
answer. " Forests or woods which are known to
have produced oak timber centuries since are still
producing oak timber without any symptom of
failure ; and I should imagine that all we see now,
and immense tracts besides to the west and north
of us, were all one continuous forest at the time
Julius Csesar landed in England, and probably for
unknown ages before that."
" Do you think there were red-deer and wild-
boars here, sir," chimed in Bob, " in those days,
and wolves and bears, and all the rest of it ?"
198 VISIT TO SIR CUTHBERT.
"I make no doubt that in this part of the
country there were plenty of red-deer, and pro-
bably a fair share of the other interesting animals
you have named ; a few wild cattle also, and
very likely goats and sheep, that weren't exactly
domestic."
Bob's sentiments appeared to be that it would
be much " brickier" than shooting a couple of
small rabbits sitting as he did with his brother's
gun one evening last summer holidays to bag a
brace of wild pigs; that is, if he had somebody
else to carry them, and was quite sure the old
boar, their papa, wouldn't take it ill of him. He
thought he shouldn't like the least to have a
shindy with an old fellow of that sort.
Sir Cuthbert laughed, and said he thought Bob
was about right. A boar would be an awkward
customer for a boy. He had once seen, in Ger-
many, a horse so badly hurt with a rip from a
boar's tusk, that it had to be shot out of hand as
soon as the tussle was over, the rider having been
dismounted, with his thigh laid open, and been in
great danger of his life, if another gentleman of
the party had not passed his spear through the
infuriated brute in the very nick of time.
The party had now begun to ride steadily on
in the direction of Wrilton Park. No incident
occurred worth special note, except that Jack's
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pony capered rather more than its rider approved,
when a hare got out of her seat right under its
nose, as they rode over a part of the common
after leaving the Buck-stone as the Rocking-
stone was called by the country people, and in
due time they reached home. As they rode up
to dismount at the entrance to the stable-yard,
they saw Banks waiting there, with a long thin
parcel in his hand, done up in brown paper.
" Well, Banks, you've got them, I see/' was Sir
Cuthbert's salutation. " Let's see what they are
like."
And taking the parcel, he cut the short ties
which confined the paper envelopes in five or six
places, and removing the paper, revealed two sepa-
rate long thin packages, encased in a kind of
neutral-tint coloured canvas bags. Undoing a
ribbon tie at one end, four joints of a slender
tapering fishing-rod were disclosed, each reposing
in its own separate compartment in the bag. One
was a spare top ; the other three, when fitted to-
gether, made a very beautiful eleven foot fly-rod.
The other case, on being opened, displayed similar
contents. Sir Cuthbert took both in succession
in his hand, and going through sundry evolutions
with them, said he thought they would do well.
Banks was now standing with another brown
paper parcel in his hand, which being undone, out
200 VISIT TO SIR CUTHBERT.
came two bright, broad check-reels, each with a.
tapering line on. These were soon affixed to the
rods, and the line drawn through the multitude
of small rings, and finally through the eye at the
end of the top joint. The two boys were looking,
on in extreme admiration of such dainty fishing-
rods, when Sir Cuthbert turned to them and said,
" Now, boys, look here ; if you don't catch me a
good dish of trout with these rods within a fort-
night, you don't deserve to have them. Go down
now with Banks to the lake, and get him to show
you a little how to use them, while I go and see
about my letters." And not waiting for their
thanks, which it must be confessed did not come
very fluently, in their utter surprise at the as it
seemed in their eyes magnificent present so un-
expectedly made them, he passed on into the
house, leaving them to go, as he had suggested,
to the water-side with the keeper. There was
very little wind, and placing them so as to have
the advantage of that little behind them, Banks
proceeded to show them how to throw the line.
It would fall in curls just under the end of the rod
at first ; but in the course of half-an-hour's prac-
tice, Bob contrived to make a tolerably straight
mark on the water when the line fell, having enough
of it out to measure about one length and a-half
of his rod. Jack did not succeed nearly so well ;
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bat Banks knew that, if Bob learned, his cousin
would not be long behind, and so gave most of his
hints, and instructions, and example to him ; and,
before they left the lake, Bob could throw twice
the length of his rod quite straight once in three
times, with the wind, and not very badly across
it ; besides avoiding the fatal crack behind, which,
if the tyro had a fly on, always means that said fly
is not on any longer. Banks went up with the
lads to the house, and it was arranged that he
should meet them at a given point on the Whit-
water, at one o'clock on Thursday afternoon.
When they again met Sir Cuthbert, a little before
dinner, their raptures and their thanks came out
fluently enough. " Such beautiful rods ; and as
good as they looked. Banks said a pretty good
hand might throw eleven or twelve yards of line
with either of them, and he would warrant them
to kill a 41b. trout, if a body knew how : and how
Bob had often thought there would be nothing he
should like better than to be able to throw a fly well,
but how he had never thought he could have a real,
good rod of his own till he was a good deal older ;
and, then, to have such a real, beautiful rod given
him so unexpectedly " and a good deal more to
the same effect. Sir Cuthbert enjoyed their rap-
tures, and told them they knew the conditions.
They must catch him a good dish of trout with
202 VISIT TO SIR CUTHBERT.
those very rods in a fortnight. He would have
nothing to say to trout caught with a set-line ; he
should scorn such, he said : and then, as to the
thanks, at least half belonged to his mother, for
she had suggested the gift in lieu of " the Tip"
they would otherwise have had. He hoped they
approved her suggestion : otherwise he could soon
set it right, by giving them each a sovereign and
keeping the rods himself. Would they have it so ?
" Oh ! no, they would much rather have the rods
than two sovereigns, or three either." And then
they both went to Lady Graham, and told her
how they held her kindness in suggesting that
they would like something they could keep always ;
oh ! so much better than all the tips in the
world.
After dinner was over, Sir Cuthbert asked
them if they could spare half an hour from their
" Audubon" to come and look over a book or two
of his, that he usually kept pretty closely to him-
self. Leaving their birds instantly, they saw him
take up one of two rather homely, stuffy-looking,
thick pocket-book affairs, tied up with green
ribbon that had lost a good deal of its original
colour. Jack wondered what book it could be ;
but Bob, who had seen such books before, was at
no loss, and at once said "Are you going to
show us your flies, Sir Cuthbert ?"
ARTIFICIAL FLIES. 203
The book was presently spread open before
their admiring eyes for the fly-rods had opened
up in them a new sense of fitness and beauty
and March browns, and red spinners, and green-
tails, and spider flies, and coch-y-bond-dhus, and
peacock flies, and red and black ants, and red and
black hackles, and smoky hackles, and governors,
and coachmen, and hosts of others were displayed
in all their very unaccountable enticingness. Sir
Cuthbert was, meanwhile, as he turned over the
leaves, selecting three or four flies here, and three
or four there, till he had quite a heap of little
coils at his side. At last, having looked through
all the trout flies, and not a few salmon and sea-
trout ditto, and answered a great many questions
as to the uses of one, the season for another, the
reason why some were so very tiny and others six
times as big, he turned to his mother and asked
if she thought Ferrers would have the books
ready. In answer to a double ring of the bell,
Lady Graham's maid, Ferrers, appeared with
what seemed to be two rather large sized ordinary
pocket-books in her hand. One of these was
given to each of the boys, who on opening them
found the paper had been taken out, and in its
place alternate sheets of flannel and parchment
inserted; the former neatly stitched round the
edges and with a double loop of narrow parchment
204 VISIT TO SIR CUTHBERT.
affixed across the middle. Sir Cutlibert took the
book from Bob's hand, and placed a couple of the
flies in so that the points entered the flannel at
the top of the page, and the gut they were tied
on was then passed in a loop under the strip of
parchment. He then returned it to Bob, and
pushed over the heap of flies which lay beside
him, and told the boys to make a partition, and
stow them away in their books ; adding, as they
hesitated, and seemed unable to comprehend all
their good fortune and his kindness, " Mind you
both bring me the first 21b. trout you catch with
those flies."
Before going to bed, they were obliged to have
another peep at their beautiful rods, and either
with the late dinner, or the excitement of the
morning excursion, and the wonderful presents at
the end of it, Bob dreamed of a trout a yard long,
which kept taking his fly and never getting hooked,
and woke at last with a desperate attempt to
plunge in after it, which ended in finding himself
wide awake on the floor. Jack's dreams were
compounded of Druids, with blue beards and black
gowns, sitting in the refectory gallery at the
Abbey, and eventually resolving themselves into
a number of herons holding a council round the
rocking-stone. However, they were up in good
time again, and had an hour's practice with rod
CROSSBILLS OBSERVED. 205
and line at the lake before breakfast ; at the end
of which Bob found himself really beginning to
have a little command over his own line, and able
to give a hint or two to Jack. After breakfast,
Sir Cuthbert showed them the old arms and
armour, which once had hung in the Castle-hall,
and explained several matters connected with both
to them ; after which, having yet an hour to the
time fixed for their return to the school, they
rambled into the wilderness and over to the Castle.
As they returned, Bob observed two birds about
one of the fir-trees, which he said he was sure
were crossbills, and if so, they must be nesting in
the neighbourhood. He went in, without delay,
to ask if Sir Cuthbert knew there were crossbills
about in the wilderness. Sir Cuthbert, who was
in the hall, said, " No, indeed he did not ; but
was Bob sure they were crossbills ?"
Bob's reply was to ask if Sir Cuthbert had
time to go and see the birds in question. He
put himself under the boy's guidance directly,
and the birds were pronounced, after a good view
of them had been obtained, to be genuine cross-
bills. Sir Cuthbert at once adopted his young
visitor's theory, that, from the presence of the
crossbills at that particular time of the year, they
must have a nest at no great distance. He in-
quired particularly on which tree the birds had
206 VISIT TO SIR CUTHBERT.
been first observed. Bob had noticed them first
from their somewhat parrot -like movements
among the branches of the tree, and he pointed
out not only the tree but the particular branch on
which he had first observed them ; being able to
identify the latter from a peculiar irregularity in
formation, which he had observed while endea-
vouring to make out the concealment they had
suddenly sought when his sudden exclamation of
surprise at recognising them had caused them to
take alarm. Sir Cuthbert at once began to scan
that particular tree with very close attention, but
appeared to scrutinize the branches much in the
same portions of them as if he had been looking
for a bullfinch's or chaffinch's nest. Bob said to
him after a minute or two,
" Sir Cuthbert, I read in one of your books
yesterday, that the crossbill's nest was sometimes
generally, I think, it said in a fork of the tree
selected by the bird. Will you please look at that
tree" pointing to a pine of no very great size,
which stood a short distance from the extremity
of the branch he had just before specially pointed
out to Sir Cuthbert; and the leading shoot of
which, having been in some way destroyed several
years before, had been replaced by three shoots of
equal pretensions, now forming a decided " fork"
in the tree. ' ( I can't see the fork very distinctly,
CROSSBILL'S NEST. 207
but I fancy there is something there that doesn't
belong to the tree ; though to be sure it may be
only a heap of the old needles lodged there."
Sir Cuthbert followed the direction of Bob's
finger, and was as much taken with the idea
that a nest very likely the nest was there as
Bob was. The latter wished to ascend at once
and ascertain. He was overruled, however, by
suggestions about the " state of turpentine" in
which his clothes would be found on his descent,
and by considerations for the integrity of the
young pine. But he had the satisfaction which
was next greatest to that of going up the tree
himself, namely, that of going at the top of his
speed to summon the gardener with one of his
garden ladders. This was soon brought and set
against the pine, and Bob mounted almost as
nimbly as a cat in his eagerness, and speedily an-
nounced it was a nest ; and not a nest that he had
ever seen before. Loosely made, he said, of dry
twigs and little else, but with four eggs in it,
larger than the greenfinch's eggs not very much
unlike them in colour and markings. Two of
them, at Sir Cuthbert's instance, were removed
from the nest and most carefully brought down.
Bob took it as a matter of course that they would
at once be promoted to a place in Sir Cuthbert's
grand collection in the hall cabinet. But Sir
208 VISIT TO SIR CUTHBERT.
Cuthbert himself thought his own undoubtedly
English specimens would do quite as well, although
these had been found in his own grounds ; and
succeeded at length in satisfying Bob's punc-
tiliousness by assuring him that, interested as he
(Sir Cuthbert) was at the fact that crossbills did
nest at Wrilton, still he should not have desired
the eggs to be taken if he, Bob, had not been him-
self an egg-collector. Returning to the house
with this great addition to their collection of eggs,
our two young friends found they had but just
time to get their goods together, inclusive espe-
cially of the highly-prized fly-rods, and to take
leave of Lady Graham, before the groom and dog-
cart were announced as ready to convey them
back to Elmdon. Sir Cuthbert, as he shook hands
with them, reminded them once more that he
should look for a dish of trout before that day
fortnight, that had been fairly caught with those
very rods used by their own hands. " Mind, no
poached trout for me," he concluded, as the dog-
cart speeded off.
CHAPTER XI.
Fly-Fishing Expedition " Foxing the Fish " Chasing the
Poacher Shrike's Nest Wrinkles in Fly-Fishing Capture
of Fish.
BOB and his cousin found it rather difficult at
j.
first after their two days' dissipation at Wrilton
Park to settle down to their school duties. How-
ever, a little quiet determination and self-discipline,
which Jack had, to a good degree, succeeded in
imitating from his companion, produced the re-
sult, after the first quarter of an hour, of close and
successful application ; for, as Bob said to Jack
after school hours, they seemed to feel themselves
so much fresher and better able to learn. The
following morning when what they had prepared
had to be produced in class, Bob had no difficulty
in maintaining his former place, and Jack only
lost one ; which he succeeded, however, in regain-
ing at the next opportunity.
Great were the watchings of the clouds, the
speculations about the favourableness or the
reverse of the wind, about the state of the water,
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210 FLY-FISHING EXPEDITION.
and what " fly would be on," and such other topics
as were supposed to consist with the possession of
real fly-rods with spare tops to them ; and it was
rather amusing to witness the manner in which
these anticipatory fly-fishers snubbed their own in-
voluntary manifestations of boyish eagerness and
impatience for the arrival of the afternoon, as quite
beneath the dignity of gentlemen-anglers for trout
with the fly. Rather a damp was cast upon their
expectations and the descent from the sublimity
of trout already thrice caught in prospect, to the
r-
ignominiousness of feeling that no trout could even
be fished for, was vexatiously induced by a sudden
recollection of Bob's, that that most essential part
of the fly-fisher's equipment, the gut casting line,
had been utterly overlooked by everybody up to
the present moment. Sir Cuthbert had forgotten
it ; the gamekeeper hadn't thought of it.
" Why, it wasn't likely he would," threw in
Bob, as he went on : " I myself had never given
it a thought till this minute ; and I haven't a bit
of gut fit to make one even half a yard long."
Jack knew just about nothing of either the
virtues of, or the necessity for, a casting-line, and
took the discovery of the want rather coolly, some-
what to the further disturbance of Bob's already
tasked equanimity : " A fellow going out fly-
fishing not to know what a casting. line was !"
CASTING-LINE OK FLY-LINK. 211
However, Preparations and Class soon banished
alike the thought of the expedition and the sense
of disappointment, and Bob, when twelve o'clock
came, had only just revived again to a due appre-
ciation of the magnitude and irreparableness of
the deficiency, when a shout of " Benson ! Bob
Benson, where are you? you are wanted," rose
from the other side of the school-yard. Bob, with
the air of one suffering unmerited wrongs with
sublime stoicism, marched slowly across the en-
closure. Seeing through the open gate a pony,
which he recognised on the instant it was the
one he had ridden only two days before and a
smart page with it, whose buttons he had equally
small difficulty in recognising, he rather forgot his
" immense sell," and consequent sorrows, and
rushed in great haste to find out what was the
matter. As soon as he came up, the page handed
him a small note, "with Sir Cuthbert's compli-
ments," and a much larger envelope as well, which
did not seem to cover enclosures of paper merely ;
and then rode away at once. Hastily opening the
note, Bob found just half-a-dozen lines, to say that
Sir'Cuthbert was very sorry he had forgotten the
casting-lines in making out the fly-fishing equip-
ment for his young friends ; but he hoped he had
remedied the oversight by sending half-a-dozen
by the bearer. Bob almost danced across the
212 FLY-FISHING EXPEDITION.
yard to the study, where he found Jack contem-
plating his fly-rod with great earnestness. To
hurry him in the necessary preparations ; to push
the precioiis casting-lines close under his unappre-
ciating nose, and almost equally unintelligent
eyes ; to rush off to the Doctor for leave ; to sling
his egg-box over his own shoulder and the fish-
pannier over Jack's ; to deposit fly-book and en-
velope of gut-links in his safest pocket ; to push
Jack out of the study and tumble over him in his
hot haste ; all these several acts were done, or in
course of doing, almost at the same instant : and
it was not until the two lads had got over the
bridge, that it occurred to Bob that all this was
inconsistent with the steady, sober demeanour
which became the fellow who has expanded from
the bud of worm-fishing into the flower of fly-
fishing. In due time they reached a point on the
stream, about a quarter of a mile below the
appointed place. Bob pronounced the water to
be in prime condition ; the wind, too, he thought
would do. Indeed, Jack began rather to wonder
by what process his cousin had all at once been
enabled to pronounce so decisively on matters
connected with the science of angling, and he was
enjoying a little quiet laugh at Bob's air of " I-
know-all-about-it/' when that young gentleman,
turning to enunciate some other dictum, caught
"FOXING THE FISH/' 213
the look of fun in Jack's countenance in a moment,
and perceiving all the absurdity of his assumption,
burst into a good hearty roar of laughter, which
had to be repeated more than once before he re-
covered himself. This process was hastened how-
ever in a very unforeseen way. Casting another
look on the surface of the stream, he beheld a
fish apparently a stout chub of a pound weight
going through a performance of very extra-
ordinary evolutions and gyrations, ending in a
very decided deviation from all the ordinary rules
of progression in practice among chub ; namely, by
turning on his back, and floating with his white
belly uppermost, giving a kind of unmeant and
unmeaning wag with his tail now and then, which
produced only the effect of turning him broadside
instead of end on to the current, that now fairly
carried him along at its own sweet will. This
apparition, which takes so long to describe, took
no time at all to observe, and Bob's tongue almost
kept pace with his eyes, the latter in perceiving,
the other in exclaiming at, the condition of the fish.
-" Who's been foxing the fish ?" was his instant
outcry. The words were scarcely out of his mouth,
when words spoken by another pair of lips sounded
close behind him.
" I'll soon know, Master Robert. Can you run
a bit ? "We'll have the sneaking fellow yet."
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So speaking, Banks (for it was he) who had
been at no great distance behind the two lads,
though not in sight of them, from a bend in the
stream which was veiled by a screen of alders,
and had come rapidly up while they were pausing
over Bob's laugh, ran off at speed up the stream.
The boys followed, though much less speedily, Jack
not yet fully comprehending " what was up/' and
Bob's breath too much required for his run to be
applicable to the process of explanation. Banks
was nearly 100 yards ahead of the lads very
speedily, and almost immediately they saw him
strike aside from his course by the river side, and
bend his steps obliquely across the meadow he had
just entered. Almost at the same moment they
heard his shout, "Stop, young fellow; I want
you." The " young fellow," though, did not seem
to want the keeper with any degree of reciprocal
feeling ; for he charged a hedge and ditch which
lay in his way, clearing it gallantly, and making
for the Fox- Spinney, a part of which was at no
great distance from the Whitwater, no doubt in
the hope that, once in it, he might easily succeed
in baffling his pursuer. However, the keeper's
long legs, and strong muscles and sinews, aided
by a power of breathing, wonderfully invigorated
by years of constant and often laborious exercise
on foot, prevailed, and just as the runaway was
THE "FOX" CAUGHT. 215
within five yards of the shelter, a strong hand
was laid on his collar.
"Now you let me alone V he exclaimed, de-
fiantly, though pantingly, as the keeper twisted him
round to have a look at his face, " I hain't adone
anythink to you. You let me alone, I say : it'll
be the best for yer."
The keeper's only reply was to look at him
steadily, saying slowly, after a moment or two so
spent " One of James Howlet's lads, you are, I
can see. I thought so as soon as I saw you run.
He don't know, nor your mother neither, the
game you're up to. If I gave you a good hiding
now, it would only serve you right ; but you'll
catch one, I guess, sharper than I should like to
lay on another man's lad, from your father, when
he knows of your morning's work. So Jem shall
take you straight home, with a few of the fish
you've poisoned as a sample."
So saying, he gave a whistle, which was not
answered; repeating it, however, a few minutes
after at a different point, Jem's answering
whistle was heard, and Banks then walked his
unwilling captive to the river side, where Bob and
Jack, after seeing the successful issue of the pur-
suit, had been for the last few minutes busying
themselves with fishing out such of the victims of
the " foxing" as came within their reach. At one
216 FLY-FISHING EXPEDITION.
particular place, where an eddy set in toward the
bank, they were very successful ; and by the time
Banks reached them, they had nearly twenty dead
or dying fish on the bank beside them, having seen
besides nearly as many more pass out of reach.
An eye cast over the stream, as he approached the
boys from higher up its course, showed the keeper
that the mischief was all below him ; so he asked
Bob to run down a bit and see whether many
others were turned up below. Master Howlet by
this time, having a lively recollection of a licking
or two got from his father before, for somewhat
similar exploits combined with truancy, was be-
ginning to be very penitent and suppliant. " He
never hadn't done it afore, and he never wouldn't
no more, if only Measter Banks would let him off
this time." In a few minutes Bob returned with
the report that he had counted twenty-seven fish
turned up, besides two or three smaller ones
which had got sadly maimed by some of the
larger inhabitants of the water, that had meanly
taken advantage of their helpless condition.
At the same time Jem Watt approached from
the other side, and to his custody Howlet
was entrusted, with strict injunctions not to
let him out of his sight till he had delivered
him safely into the hands of his father. The
boy now began to blubber loudly, for which
THE YOUNG POACHER. 217
it seemed he had some occasion ; for, when the
name Howlet was mentioned, the watcher said
" Ned Howlet, I'll answer for it !" And then
speaking to the boy, he asked " Isn't your name
Ned, young chap ?"
He sobbed out, "Ees."
" Then, where's that holler tree you've hid the
rabbit and the little short gun in ? that rabbit
you shot, nigh two hours ago, in Farmer Stoke's
field agin the Spinney."
Poor Ned looked the picture of blank dismay at
this unlooked-for accusation. It seemed Jem had
heard a shot fired, as he thought, very near the
wood, which he couldn't account for ; and as he
was making his way in the direction the sound
had seemed to travel in, he came upon a lad in the
wood with a pheasant's egg in his hand. Jem
demanded rather sharply what he was doing there,
and with that egg, and where he got it. He said
" he was only looking for a few birds' nests, and
he had just picked that egg up from the ground.
There were two others lay near it, but both broken/'
The watcher did not believe the tale. However,
the little boy said he could show him the place,
and he did so; and then Jem at once per-
ceived that the broken eggs had been sucked,
apparently by a bird, and he had no doubt the
third was brought for the same purpose. Looking
218 FLY-FISHING EXPEDITION.
at it, as he took it from the lad's hand, he saw
that it was even so. The plunderer had stuck his
beak into it and carried it off so impaled, and had
probably been disturbed by the boy in the act.
But Jem had noticed fresh blood upon the boy's
hands, and some rabbit's fur about his jacket-
sleeves ; and abruptly asked him where the rabbit
was " he and his mate had shot ?"
It was a random question, but it brought out
the fact, the merest suspicion of which had
prompted the inquiry.
" Ned put it in the holler tree/' the little chap
blurted out, and then coloured up the instant he
recollected himself, and began to cry lustily.
" And the gun's in the tree too, I dessay," con-
tinued Jem.
No answer.
"Dick Payne's short gun, I mean, which he
lent to Ned Howlet last night, for his father to
shoot a cat with, he said."
Ned's accomplice seeing so much was known,
and very likely thinking more still was known,
began to make a clean breast of it. " Ned had
persuaded him to play truant, and go with him to
shoot birds and catch fish. That they had shot a
spink and a yellow-hammer in the road, and then
didn't see anything else till Ned spied a little
rabbit sitting by a hedge-side ; that he had shot
REDBACKED SHRIKE'S NEST. 219
it ; that both of them were a little bit frightened
at having done so, and that Ned thought they had
better hide up both rabbit and gun in a hollow
tree close by ; that having done this, Ned had said
to him he was to go and look for birds' nests in
the wood, while he (Ned) was catching fish. He
wanted to go to the river too, but Ned wouldn't
let him/' Jem stated further, that the little boy
said his name was Charley Summers, and that at
his recommendation that he should go straight
home from the wood, the poor boy seemed only
too glad to do so, by setting off at full speed as
soon as he found himself at liberty.
Ned Howlet owned to the rabbit and the gun,
and disclosed the place of their concealment ;
which, indeed, was hardly necessary, as both
Banks and Jem had a notion, as soon as a hollow
tree was named, whereabouts the secreted articles
were to be found.
Bob had listened to all this rather attentively,
but Jack had got quite tired, and was now seen
at a little distance from the principal actors in
the scene, listlessly looking into a few bushes
which grew by a little ditch separating one
meadow from another. Just as Bob looked
round for him, his apathy seemed to forsake him,
and a shout of
" Bob ! I say, Bob, come here/' vehemently
220 FLY-FISHING EXPEDITION.
uttered, and accompanied by energetic wavings
and beckonings with his hand and arm, showed
very significantly that something had occurred to
waken his interest.
Bob hastened to him, leaving Banks to give
his parting instructions to the watcher. On ap-
proaching the spot where Jack was standing,
apparently quite occupied with intent observation
of something in one of the bushes, Bob asked
what it was that had caused Jack so much
excitement.
" Look here, was the reply ; ' ' did you ever see
anything like that? Here's a little frog, with
one leg gone, and a hairy caterpillar, stuck through
with a long spiky thorn, so as to hang from it ;
there's another large hairy caterpillar on another
thorn there, not far off; and here's a young,
unfledged bird on another great thorn on this
side the thorn goes right through its head.
What can be the meaning of it ?"
" Why," says Bob, " it does look a little like a
shambles ; doesn't it ? That's the handywork of a
butcher-bird, I can see ; and, by Jove, there's the
cock bird there, not six yards off. Now, Jack,
look alive j there's a nest not far."
Jack could not help pausing to cast a look of
admiration at the very handsome bird Bob had
drawn his observation to, but he soon began the
PLY-FISHING. 221
search Bob had for himself instituted as well as
proposed. Nor was it long before his eye fixed on
rather a large nest-like looking mass, placed rather
high in a strong bush, about fifteen yards higher
up than where he had found the shrike's larder.
He was soon enabled, by an active clamber, to
announce to Bob that he had found a nest;
" would he come and tell him whether it was the
butcher-bird's ?" Bob thought the eggs were very
like that bird's ; but Banks, coming up at the
moment, settled the question at once. The eggs,
with great mutual congratulation, were secured,
and then time was found to think of the real
business of the day once more. The rods were
put together, the reels affixed, the line threaded,
and a few preliminary casts made to see that the
sleight had not left their arm and wrist. Suc-
ceeding very fairly after a few minutes of trial,
the gut-links were produced and affixed. But,
alas ! they were dry, and would most perversely
fall in circles, instead of neatly and duly extended
into fine straight lines. Banks succeeded, after a
patient manipulation of them' between his finger
and thumb, in making them capable of falling in
a sort of serpentine form instead of a spiral curve,
and then set the lads to lash the water with them
till they became thoroughly softened and yielding,
preparatory to affixing a fly. In ten minutes or
222 FLY-FISHING EXPEDITION.
&o, Bob made such fair work on the surface of the
smooth pool they were standing by, that Banks
put him on a fly. Bob was very zealous not to
make a crack with his line as he brought it round
from behind : but avoiding Scylla, he fell into
Charybdis ; for the line not being kept in contin-
uous motion found time to trail its lower lengths,
with the fly at the end, on the ground. The hook,
being of a prehensile nature, naturally caught
the first stalk or stem strong enough to arrest it ;
and when Bob made the motion for sending the
line fairly forward over the water, the stem or
stalk objected to a severance of the intimate asso-
ciation just formed, and, in consequence, the hook
had to be left behind.
" ' Gone to grass/ Master Robert/' was Banks'
explanatory remark on witnessing the performance.
Master Robert, however, did not comprehend.
He hadn't an idea what could be " gone to grass/'
for they hadn't being talking of even a donkey
being sent out " abroad in the meadows," whether
to eat grass or for any other purpose. So he pro-
ceeded to repeat the 1 throw with the cheering con-
fidence that he was all but a fly-fisher now he was
actually " throwing the fly." Banks therefore
quietly suggested to him to see if his fly-link was
all right'.
" All right? Of course it is/' said Bob:
"GONE TO GRASS." 223
" I saw it out as straight as an arrow last
throw."
" But you'll find it a good plan at first, Master
Robert, to look to it every now and then."
Bob, to oblige the gamekeeper, did as he sug-
gested. The gut hung beautifully limp now, and
there wasn't a coil or a knot in it. Bob was going
to throw again.
"But how is your fly, Master Robert?" the
tiresome Banks insisted.
Bob, meaning nothing less than to confound
him, raised the end of his link to show him the
fly. But somehow, the confusion was not on
Banks's countenance when it only too clearly
appeared that fly there was none. Bob then per-
mitted the gamekeeper to explain, with edifying
clearness, that when a gentleman fly-fisher, new
to his art, did not hit the happy medium between
too fast and too slow in bringing his line round
at its greatest extension behind him, but unhap-
pily hit upon the too slow, the hook, surely drag-
ging on the ground, as surely, almost, caught
against some object strong enough to detain it;
and then, if the gut did not give way, the top-joint
of the rod sometimes did. Bob comprehended
without much difficulty. His next move was
rather a clever one.
" Banks," says he, " take my rod, and let me
224 FLY-PISHING EXPEDITION.
stand behind you ; fix that wee feather on the end
of the line, and throw, first too slow, and then the
right way."
No sooner said than done. Bob saw the small
white feather trail and once even slightly catch.
" Now throw your best '," and then he saw how
the feather floated rapidly but equably round,
without jerk and without faltering, five or six
times in succession.
( ' I can do it now," he cried at last ; and five
times out of six the feather floated round, more
slowly than when the rod was in the keeper's
hand no doubt, but still correctly ; and the sixth
time, after only a very slight dalliance with the
blades of grass.
" Bravo ! Master Robert : you must have
another fly on ;" and selecting a rather large red
hackle, Banks knotted it to the end of the casting-
line.
Ten or a dozen throws were achieved with in-
creasing success, and Bob was drawing his line in
for another, the fly sweeping round as he did so
into the very eye of a little ripple. To his im-
mense surprise he felt a sharp little tug, to which
he responded, by some spasmodic action of his
muscles, with an equally sharp but by no means
equally little jerk, and a small fish was seen to
emerge from the water much as if shot out, and
THE FIRST FISH. 225
having passed through an involuntary leap of six
or eight foet, to fall back again into the water.
" Did you see that, Banks ?"
" Yes, sir ; and if I might say so, I saw a
very cockney trick. If that had been a good
fish you'd have broken either line or rod. Don't
you mean to pull that chap out because he's so
little ?"
" Pull him out ! Why he fell in again."
' ' Yes, to be sure he did ; but with the hook fast
in his jaws, or I'm no judge."
Bob hereupon proceeded, with the utmost de-
spatch, to tighten his slack line, and had the in-
tense satisfaction of landing his first fish caught
with the artificial fly_. A small dace of two ounces
weight was the voluntary victim in this case;
for everybody's first fish is caught he does not
know how, or indeed anything about it, except
that he himself had no hand in it. Bob was a
fly-fisher now, and Banks told him to go and try
the tail of a stream a little further up, while he
stopped and gave Jack a hint or two. Bob went
to the stream and flogged the loAver part of it
zealously. Once he caught a little green weed
from a stone at the bottom, and once a fish as
long as his finger really rose to his fly. He was
just going farther up when Bauks.joined him again,
and gave him a hint or two how to fish the stream
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226 FLY-FISHING EXPEDITION.
itself. lie was first to try and let his fly ii<rht in the
still water just beyond the current, then to bring
it across the current and let it be borne by it into
the still water on this side ; to repeat this throw
about a foot lower down the stream each time,
half a dozen or more times ; then to try the eddies
lower down, and across the stream where it ex-
panded itself more. Bob did as he was told. A
throw in good water, badly managed, blank ; a
second throw, not much better ; a third throw,
the fly lighting not by wit, but by luck, just be-
hind a large stone which lay nearly flush, but di-
vided the current beautifully. Bob saw a glance
in the little bit of still water, but fearful of con-
ducting himself like a cockney again, he hesitated
about striking at all. However, it wasn't neces-
sary ; for his line was taut enough, through the
action of the current, to hook the fish by its own
action ; and a tug, a rush, and a leap, which seemed
all contemporaneous to his astonished optics, an-
nounced to him that he had hooked a trout, and a
good one. Hooked it, but not caught it; for the
trout seemed to be the best man of the two : he
swam into the stream, down the stream, up the
stream^ much as he pleased ; and Bob's mission
appeared to be to indulge his vagrant propensities.
However, a hint or two from Banks about holding
his rod up and getting a pull upon him, and keep-
A GOOD TKOUT CAUGHT. 227
ing his rod in such a position that its elasticity
might tell upon the trout " keeping it always
bent " was the keeper's phrase enabled him to
turn the tables on the " bumptious " trout ; and,
after two or three minutes, to lead him down to
where the water shallowed over a gravel, and
conduct him, almost unresisting, to a place where
he had not water to cover him as he lay gasping
on his side. A beautiful trout he was.
" Two pounds weight/' cried Bob.
" Nay/' says Banks, " not quite so much as
that. I think one is nearer the mark ; but he's
a grand 'un for your first."
Shouts from Jack now claimed attention. He
had been walking in his meditative way, trailing
the fly Banks had put on for him when he had
tarried behind a little before, along the surface of
the water, when a very hungry chub seized it and
was fast hooked before the angler knew anything
about it. The chub didn't like the predicament,
that was clear, and it was not clear that Jack
liked it much better at first. But his resolution
not to be beat, at least by a fish of that size, came
to his aid, and after his first shout of half surprise
and half dismay, he stood on the defensive. He
had an idea that he ought to reel up his line, which
happened to be right, as the chub had run in under
the nearer bank. As the line was slack enough
228 PLY-PJSH1NG EXPEDITION.
he had got his rod into a nearly perpendicular
position, so that when the line began to shorten
sufficiently for him to feel his fish, the captive was
speedily brought to the surface nearly vertically
under the top. Fortunately, rod, line, hook, gut,
all were good, and held till the fish was exhausted,
or sulked, as the chub often seems to do; and
Banks' s c ' Draw him along here, Master Edwards,"
was the beginning of the end ; for, acting up to the
injunction, Jack brought the fish within reach of
Banks's hands, placed together and under him, so
as to lift him fairly out of the water. Bob mean-
time was filled with the noble ambition of catch-
ing Sir Cuthbert's dish of fish then and there.
Perplexingly enough, however, to one possessed
with such an ambition, the trout refused to be
caught. Our young friend raised more than one
by no means despicable trout ; but either he did
not strike at all, or not till the fish had detected
the cheat, and spit it out, and so they were missed.
He did catch a few coarse fish, and one or two
adventurous troutlings, but no other ' ' pounder "
graced his pannier. Jack's further exploits were
confined to hooking his own cap, then trying the
tenacity of the branch of a tree, and finally losing
his fly, he neither knew where nor how. How-
ever, a look at the chub consoled him in all his
troubles, and when at last the boys bade tlie good-
NEST OF MISSEL-THRUSH. 229
natured Banks good evening, and, with their rods
duly packed, began their homeward course, it was
with the conviction that there was no sport like
fly-fishing. Their several conflicts with the trout
and the chub were fought over again and again,
and wise resolves, due to real experiences, were
announced as intended to be carried into effect on
occasion of " next time." As they passed a de-
tached orchard on their way home, and perceived
a missel-thrush's nest with its . peculiar style of
bands about it, in one of the apple-trees, even the
acquisition of these eggs, which they had much
coveted the whole spring, scarcely served to make,
in their regards, a very noticeable episode in the
day's history. But even their talk on exploits,
past and to come, had to come to an end when
they reached the school with only time to get
readv for roll-cail.
CHAPTER XII.
Another Fly-fishing Excursion A Dish of Trout Red Viper
A little Botany Curlew's and Norfolk Plover's Eggs.
IT is scarcely necessary to state that, whenever they
could get away for an hour to the banks of the W; .-
sett, thither they resorted ; not so much in the hope,
or with the expectation of taking fish, as with the
purpose of practising the rudiments of their art ;
so far, that is, as those rudiments consist in neat
and expert casting of the line. They certainly did,
from time to time, catch a dace or small chub.
There were few other fly-taking fish in the still
deeps and slow currents of the Wassett, as it ran
through the broad meadows which skirted the
immediate precincts of Elmdon to the north.
But these occasional captures gave them great
encouragement, as so many proofs that they were
gradually becoming more and more expert in the
use of rods and flies; for, in the still water in
which they were practising, very bungling throws,
and very clumsy attempts almost equally with no
CRICKET-MATCH TO COME OFF. 231
attempts atall at striking, would almost inevitably
and invariably result in raising almost no fish at
all, and missing those young-lady fish perhaps
which were weak and curious enough to rise at all
at the sham-fly. All this practice had an object.
The next holiday was to be devoted to the cap-
ture of Sir Cuthbert's dish of trout. They must
be caught that day : they would have no other
day within the fortnight ; and afterwards, there
were rumours of a cricket match, almost arranged,
w'th the Sunbury boys; and if that came on,
though neither of our friends were in the school
eleven, yet Bob was quite enough of a cricketer
to be very useful in the continual practising^
which went on when a match was in view ; and
so there would be an end of egg-hunting, and fly-
fishing too. Tuesday came rain, morning, noon
and night ; not heavy, but continuous. Wednes-
day came -dull, gloomy, foggy, damp.
" More rain," augured Bob, " and the water
will be so thick, we shan't raise a fish."
However, on going out, he saw that the rain
must have discontinued the previous evening, as
most of the pools observable over night had now,
for the most part, disappeared ; which would not
have been the case had the rain continued through
the night, or the greater part of it. About ten
the sun came out ; by twelve, the day was beau-
232 ANOTHER FLY-FISHING EXCURSION.
tiful. Bob now began to augur a first-rate day
for their expedition. The rain of yesterday, he
was sure, would have raised the water in the
brooks, and so in the Whitwater; that still it
would not have been a great flood, nor anything
like itj that if it kept fine twenty-four hours
more, the water would have sunk to its ordinary
level, or nearly so, and only continue to be dis-
coloured so much as to give the very best chance
the fly-fisher can have; for the trout seem to
enjoy a return to a fly-diet after two or three days
enforced abstinence such as is caused by muddi-
ness in the water, and at the same time, the
degree of discoloration, still left in the water
seems better to conceal from them the deceptive
nature of the bait the fly-fisher throws so per-
severingly in their way. The barometer of the
lads' hopes and anticipations began to fall again
towards evening, when the clouds once more col-
lected, and rain actually began to fall. But the
shower for it was nothing more soon passed,
and with it the clouds ; and the evening was even
more beautiful and promising than the afternoon
had been.
Thursday 'morning came everythingthe angler's
heart could desire. The sun was shining, there
was a gentle breeze blowing from the south;
clouds, not threatening rain-foreboding clouds,
THE START. 233
but vapour- constructions of a very different class,
that seemed to be intended for nothing else, at
least to have nothing else to do, than to prevent
the sun's rays from being troublesome to the
fisher. The Doctor seemed to see an unusual
degree of eagerness in Bob's manner of asking the
customary permission for the afternoon, and
enquired whether he had any special object in
view in which he was greatly interested. Bob
told him at once that he had such good hope of
being able, as both the day was so favourable and
most likely the water would prove in such first-
rate condition, to catch the trout Sir Cuthbcrt
had spoken of when he gave them the rods : a
gift, the full particulars of which had been related
to the Doctor, when he asked them if they had
enjoyed their visit to Wrilton Park. Dr. Noble,
in reply, stated that he had part of the afternoon
at liberty, and had had some thoughts of taking
them to Whitehow-head, to look for one or two
plants he believed might be found there. Bob at
once expressed his eagerness to accompany the
Doctor, if he wished it.
" Oh ! no, no : I wouldn't take you from your
fishing, under the circumstances, on any account.
Any day for the next ten will do for my purpose.''
So Bob and his cousin set out, duly equipped.
They were not long in reaching a place at which
234 ANOTHER FLY-FISHING EXCURSION.
they might commence operations. Their rods
were soon together, the lines out, and the casting
lines attached. Bob could not content himself
without " a dropper" as well as " a stretcher ;"
and a red spinner for the latter or end fly was
accordingly attached, while a red hackle, about a
yard above it, hanging by a piece of gut some two
and a-half inches in length, did duty as " dropper."
"I say, Jack," he broke out suddenly, as his
earnest occupation with these preliminaries began
to relax as they approached completeness, " I vote
we go up a mile or two higher, and fish down.
I'm sure we shall manage better."
Jack's inclination decidedly was to begin then
and there, but he did not doubt .that Bob was
right in making the suggestion he had done.
And so they walked further up with rapid step,
and a tingling sort of nervous anxiety to be at
work keeping them almost painfully excited.
Wetting and stretching their casting lines by
drawing them half-a-dozen times rapidly against
a very sharp stream, they began, being about
thirty or forty paces apart. Jack was the first to
kill a fish : a trout of six inches long rewarded his
second throw. Bob's luck was later in coming,
but was greater when it did come. He had fished
a likely-looking stream and very fairly for so
young a hand without any success, and had
BOB'S SUCCESS 235
made his last throw, and was now bringing in his
line previous to moving lower down, in which pro-
cess the flies were drawn along near the bank,
where, as it happened, there was a favourite seat
for a trout. Its occupant was at home, and as the
red hackle came just dipping past his nose, he
could not resist the temptation, and rose, hooking
himself as he dropped back to his former position.
And now a short but sharp struggle commenced,
which terminated in the transfer of the trout $
about nine inches from eye to fork to the
pannier. We scarcely need to describe all the
proceedings of the next hour and half. Suffice it
to say, that at the end of about that time, Bob
reeled in his line and retraced his steps, to go and
seek Jack, whom he had left considerably higher
up the stream. He had another trout nearly as
good as the one he had taken first, and three
smaller ones ; and had lost one other, and, as he
thought, large fish, which had decamped with his
fly in its mouth. Besides he had taken seven
" coarse fish." They had risen greedily, and a good
fisherman would have quintupled Bob's captures
easily. He saw Jack some little time before he
reached him, and perceived directly he had come
to grief. In fact, he had lodged his fly in the
branches of an overhanging tree, and liberate it
he could not : break it off he would not. When
236 ANOTHER FLY-FISHING EXCURSION.
Bob came up, after a moment's pause to make out
exactly where the detainer was lodged, he pro-
ceeded to divest himself of basket and to lay
aside his rod. In half a minute more he was in
the tree ; and in less than two minutes, the whole
branch, cut through by Bob's sailor-knife where
it was nearly as thick as his wrist, lay at Jack's
feet. The fly was soon disentangled, and with
admiring thanks for his friend's ready help, he was
proceeding to renew his fishing.
"Stop a bit," cried Bob; "look here. Isn't
that a beauty and that ? If only we can catch
two more each. One would almost do ; but two
would be prime. But haven't you caught anything,
Jack ?" he continued, as he saw no traces of that
young gentleman's success anywhere ; " I've had
such lots of rises."
" Oh 1 yes/' answered Jack, rather quietly ;
"I've caught one or two little ones. I'll show
you, if you like."
" Why, where are they ? you haven't put them
in your pocket, have you ?"
" Oh ! no ; I laid them near a tree root, with
grass over them to keep them nice and moist "
" Why what's the use of that, for such little
things ? But let's have a look at them."
So the lads went up about 200 yards further,
and there, at the foot of a tree, Bob saw a heap of
Jack and Bob Fly-fishing. p. 236
JACK'S SUCCESS. 237
grass that he thought showed Jack's care rather
than his wisdom in gathering so much to cover a
couple of small trout. Moving some of it away
rather scornfully with his foot, a tail lay disclosed
that in less than no time as he said afterwards in
speaking of it had him down on his knees, and
his hands employed where his toe had been a
moment before. 'Twas a glorious trout of nearly
two pounds weight, and beside it another bigger
than either of his own ; four smallish chub com-
pleted the tale.
" Why, Jack, wherever did you get these, and
how, man alive ?"
" Why," responded Jack, " I got that big one
when I wasn't thinking anything about it. I was
rather playing with my line in the stream I was
at, when you shouted you were going on. All at
once I saw a yellow gleam in the water, and the
next moment felt such a tug ! And then didn't
he leap and plunge ! Well, I let him pull the
line out of the reel at first : I think I didn't know
what else to do. Then I began to wind some of
it up again ; but I think he would have beat me,
only I happened to pull a little once as he leaped,
and he dropped into a place where there wasn't
water enough, for two or three yards together, for
him to swim. I flung my rod down, and rushed
in after him, and half kicked him, and half threw
238 ANOTHER FLY-FISHING EXCURSION.
him on to the bank ; but I broke my casting line
about it. I soon got it mended again though, and
went to work again ; I wasn't disposed to play any
longer, and I could hardly believe my luck, when,
not ten steps off, I hooked that other. I managed
him better. But I haven't had half so many rises
as you say, Bob. I can't manage it right at all ;
and I'm sure I have caught the bank and the
bushes ten times."
" Throw or not throw manage it right or not
you've managed to get the trout. And an't they
real beauties ? Just think of being able to send
Sir Cuthbert a dish of real good trout ! I don't
think, though, he supposed we should ; though he
said we were to. I think he thought we couldn't
catch them."
"Who dares say I said what I didn't mean?"
broke in Sir Cuthbert' s own voice, making both
lads start and turn round as if electrified. To
their surprise they saw not only Sir Cuthbert, but
Dr. Noble close to them no difficulty having
been experienced by the two gentlemen in coming
up to the boys, pre-occupied as they were with
their fish, and the account of their capture.
" So you have caught my trout, have you ?
Let us see what they are like."
" Upon my word !" exclaimed Sir Cuthbert,
when all four were duly displayed, " I shall have
SIR CUTHBERT AND THE DOCTOR. 239
to give Banks strict orders to look after you, at
this rate. But are you quite sure ? No set-lines,
Robert?"
Bob disclaimed the insinuation with a species
of indignation ; as if a " fellow" who could " kill"
trout with the fly could ever condescend to the set
lines to catch them !
" Now, lads, which are you for ? continuing
your afternoon's fishing, or going on with Sir
Cuthbert and myself to some of those large open
fields beyond the warren, and thence to White-
how head ?"
Their selection was made in an instant, and Sir
Cuthbert settled the little difficulty which arose
about carting the fish about so far, by calling to
the son of one of his tenants who was passing
along the road (which lay about a hundred yards
distant), and requesting him to take the rods and
fish to the gamekeeper's house, with orders that
the fish shoiild go to the Park and the rods to the
school ; " for," said he, turning to the boys, " I
suppose you mean me to have the trout."
" Indeed we do, Sir Cuthbert, if you would be
so kind ;" while the Doctor also testified to their
evident eagerness to get them, if they could, for
that purpose.
The sudden appearance of the two gentlemen
was accounted for as follows : Sir Cuthbert had
240 ANOTHER FLY-FISHING EXCURSION .
heard from some of his tenants that a good many
stone- curlews, or great plovers, had, for some three
or four years past, always been seen about the
wide, open fields he had named a little while be-
fore ; that a message had been sent up to the hall
that morning, that the plover were there again
this year; that he had accordingly left home
earlier than he would otherwise have done, to go
to Elmdon, with the intention of putting his two
young friends on the scent ; that, meeting a
person who was coming to him on business, he
was unavoidably detained until the boys had been
an hour gone. He had, however, met with Dr.
Noble, and was about to charge him with the in-
formation for them on their return; but the
Doctor had said that he had been thinking of
going much in the same direction himself, and
that he would go by way of the stream, and let
the lads know at once. Sir Cuthbert then pro-
posed to accompany him, and hence the surprise
to our heroes.
A little discussion arose, on their entering the
road, as to the best line to be taken in order to
reach their destination most easily. Sir Cuthbert
thought that, by taking the lower boundary fence
of the Spinney as their clue, until they reached
the warren, and then striking diagonally across it,
in the direction of the fields haunted bv the stone-
WHICH WAY? 24-1
curlews, they should waste least time and fewest
steps. Dr. Noble was more disposed rather,
perhaps, because the woodland walk would have
had greater freshness and delight to him to
suggest striking straight across the Spinney from
the point at which they had just arrived. Bob
and his cousin said nothing, but Sir Cuthbert
seemed to think he could say something if he were
asked, and so shortly said to him, "What's yoi
notion, Robert ? You know as well as either the
Doctor or I, I dare answer for it.''
Bob rather coloured at being thus spoken to,
for what he had to say on the subject (if he said
it), might seem to be dictated by a little inclina-
tion to assume, if not to presume. But he,
without hesitation, admitted that a plan had
occurred to him adding, however, that he had
not intended, or even wished to say anything
about it.
" What is it, my boy ? neither I nor Sir
Cuthbert are likely to misinterpret you."
Bob's reluctance to speak disappeared at this,
and he said, " I thought if we went across from
yonder gate into the wood, to the footpath which
leads through the marsh to the Beacon, we might
get almost direct to Whitehow-head ; and thence,
equally well, to the open fields named by Sir
Cuthbert. From these fields home, the path
242 ANOTHER FLY-FISHING EXCURSION.
would be plain and straightforward enough." He
thought, he added, they " might thus save nearly
three-quarters of an hour of walking."
"Capital, Robert. You have a map of the
country in your head. I see exactly ; if we go
my way, we shall go thus," bending a light flexible
cane he had in his hand into an oval, with the
two extremities, after crossing each other, pro-
jecting eight or ten inches in different directions,
" and your way, we go on a course which does
not intersect itself, and is as direct as it is possible
to be."
Bob's suggestion was therefore adopted by accla-
mation, and the Spinney was soon traversed, the
marsh passed tlj"ough, and the Beacon reached.
Turning now a little more to the westward, about
twenty minutes' brisk walking brought them to
Whitehow-head. Here there was a remarkable
depression in one of the highest swellings of the
moorland, somewhat resembling what might be
looked on as an incomplete natural amphitheatre,
whose sloping walls rose to a height of seventy
or eighty feet above the level of the bottom, that
is, the part where the enclosure was incomplete.
The open part faced to the south-east, and the
bottom in many places was very boggy. The
Doctor, on arriving at this place, stated that he
wanted specimens of the Trientalis Europaa, of
RED VIPER. 243
the dwarf honeysuckle (Cornus Saecica], of the
whortleberry (Faccinium vitis idcea), and of the
cranberry (Taccinium oxycoccus), all of which grew
within a few yards of each other in this remark-
able spot. He set the boys to look for the
whortleberry, as Bob knew it when he saw it.
He himself searched the swamp for the cranberry,
while Sir Cuthbert set himself to look up the
Cornus. The two lads soon found the plant they
were looking for, and lit upon the Trientalis as
well, together with the Listera cordata ; though
neither of these plants were flowering, or likely
to do so, for several weeks. Jack's eye, as they
descended towards the Doctor, fell upon a, to him,
unfamiliar object ; and pausing for a moment to
look more closely, Bob, who was close behind
him, perceived the same object, and caught his
arm, saying very quietly " Stop a bit, Jack : I'll
be back in a moment," he rushed off to Sir Cuth-
bert and begged him to lend him the cane, giving
as his reason, " There's a large red viper just
before my cousin. I never saw such a coloured
one before."
Sir Cuthbert hardly liked to let him assail the
creature, for fear of mischance if his blow failed.
Still, he was so confident, that the cane was
given up to him, his friend merely following close
behind to be at hand in case of emergency. How-
244 ANOTHER FLY-FISHING EXCURSION.
ever, Bob's attack was too cautious and well con-
sidered to leave any room for failure, and a single
smart, well directed blow reduced the still
writhing reptile to a state of helplessness, and
apparently unconsciousness. It was a splendid
creature. The lozenge-shaped markings on the
back were of a jet or almost velvety black, while
all the rest of the back and sides were of a rather
dull chocolate red ; and he measured two feet ten
inches in length. Bob said he had once seen a
small one in the road as he was walking up the
hill behind the carriage, in which a party were
returning from a sort of pic-nic, and that he had
eventually, by holding an empty wine bottle be-
fore its nose and administering sundry well-timed
and judicious pinches to its tail, persuaded it to
creep into the bottle, when he had corked it up
and carried it home. It seemed quite tipsy, he
said, on turning it out of its temporary place of
confinement ; but soon recovered its sobriety, and
lived for several days in a large botanical case.
But this was five times as great as that. It was
soon arranged that the viper was to be carried
home and consigned to the curator of the museum
for preservation. In the meantime, the Doctor
had got two or three good specimens of the cran-
berry, and was beginning to climb the bank when
his pupils met him with their plants and the viper.
CURLEW'S EGGS. 245
Some little time IIOAV Avas occupied in the safe
stowage of the plants, and in arrangements for the
conveyance of the snake. While thus engaged,
all three were aroused by an exclamation from Sir
Cuthbert.
" Hallo ! what have we here ? Will you be
so good as to come up here, Doctor ?"
The two boys found it was not easy to keep
pace with him in his ascent to the place where Sir
Cuthbert was standing. On reaching him, the
latter pointing with his cane which he had re-
sumed after the slaughter of the viper said,
' ' Those must be curlews' eggs ; at least I think
so. Though I have not heard of curlews nesting
here for many years."
Doctor Noble had no sort of doubt that they
were the eggs of the bird named, and the two boys
looked with no little admiration at the four
beautifully shaped and marked eggs as they lay,
point to point, in that negligent apology for a nest.
Two were speedily packed up for a journey to the
school, and all the party now set themselves to
look for the dwarf honeysuckle, and they did not
look long in vain.
Their steps were now directed rather to the
southward of west ; and, in less than half-an-hour,
they left the Common near the point at which the
boundary wall between it and the warren termi-
246 ANOTHER FLY-FISHING EXCURSION.
nated. They had scarcely shown themselves in
the large sterile fields, all spotted over with
whitish stones, varying in size between a cricket-
ball and a flat Dutch cheese, than the shrill cries
of the stone-plovers were heard. Sir Cuthbert
had received tolerably precise directions as to
where the nests of the birds in question might be
expected to be found ; and, on reaching the desig-
nated neighbourhood, gave instructions to the lads
what to look for, and in what sort of places to
look. Bob was the successful searcher in this
case. He marked out a space of about twenty
yards square by placing stones at each corner, and
then traversed it again and again till not a square
foot remained unexplored by his watchful eye. A
second similar space was similarly dealt with, and
then a third. After passing over about one-half
of this, his exultant " Hooray ! here they are,"
summoned all three of his companions to his side.
Only two eggs were there, and they laid in a
slight hollow in the sandy soil, and so like, in
general hue, to the stones that lay all around,
that nothing but mere accident or systematic
search such as Bob's had been seemed likely
to discover their position to human eyes. Taking
both for no one thought of prosecuting the
search further and turning their steps home-
wards, accident did what system had done before.
STONE-CURLEW'S EGGS. 247
This time it was the Doctor who discovered them ;
and nothing but his peremptory " Halt V which
on the instant brought Sir Cuthbert to a stand-
still, as well as the two lads saved them from
being walked over, and probably trod upon. One
step more would have brought the lads, who were
walking very close together, right over them.
However, his device saved them, and gave rise as
well to a little merry talk and laughing, the
Doctor telling Sir Cuthbert he was " glad to find
he could obey orders so promptly. As he had been
out of practice so long, it would hardly have been
thought likely if it had not been tried." Bob was
again desired to act as guide. The easiest way,
and what a Yorkshire lad at the school would call
the " soonest way," he said, would be to get back
to the warren enclosure, and cross the warren
itself till they came to the pathway. He thought
there would be nothing in that part of the warren
which intervened between them and the path to
impede their progress. The Doctor felt inclined
to go by a longer route, which Bob mentioned;
but being apprehensive Sir Cuthbert might be
beginning to be anxious to get home, he did not
mention his inclination, and they therefore took
the " soonest way." They reached Elmdon after
a good brisk walk, but not until nearly three-
quarters of an hour after evening bell. Sir Cuth-
248 ANOTHER FLY-FISHING EXCURSION.
bert told the Doctor he was sorry to see him set
his pupils such a lesson of unpunctuality ; and
asked what punishment he intended to inflict on
Noble, sen , for being absent at roll-call and an
hour late on entering school, when the case should
be in due course brought before him to-morrow.
The Doctor gravely said he should visit the
offence lightly this time, as he believed it would
be proved to have originated in the solicitations
and unfair influence of a certain idle fellow, who
had nothing particular to do, and did it, named
Cuthbert Graham. He then sent the lads to
wash themselves and get into a tidy condition,
instructing them as soon as they had done that to
come to his rooms for their supper, for which he
also tried to induce Sir Cuthbert to remain. The
Baronet, however, said his mother might be
anxious, as he had fixed to be home by seven ;
and that, therefore, much as he would like to
stay, he must at once say good-bye, get his horse
as soon as possible, and ride home with all speed ;
and he did so accordingly. The lads soon re-
turned to Dr. Noble's apartment, and did thorough
justice to the ham, and bread and butter, and tea ;
and then worked hard to make up the time for
preparation lost by their unintended absence from
evening " hours/'
CHAPTER XIII.
The Cricket Match.
NEARLY the first news our young friends heard on
rejoining their schoolfellows was that the Sunbury
match was arranged ; that the school eleven had
won the choice of place for first match, and had
elected their own ground ; and that the match was
to come off on Monday fortnight. Bob, who might
be taken into the eleven the next half year, if any
of the present members left and his place was
not supplied by some boy who chanced to be a good
cricketer, .was in great request during the inter-
vening fortnight ; and, indeed, deservedly so, for
he was very stout and active, though not tall, for
his fourteen years, and could really bowl a very
fair ball for a lad, while at fielding generally,
throwing and catching, there was no boy of his
own age at all equal to him. He did not appear
to do so well in his batting, but the reason really
was, that he, from his capabilities in other respects,
250 THE CRICKET MATCH.
just named, generally stood up to the best bowling
of the school, and seldom made a score in conse-
quence ; though it was beginning to be very gene-
rally admitted that it was not so easy to get
Benson's wicket ; and some such address from a
bowler, half as big again as himself, as this,
"Hang you, Benson, what did you block that
for ?" or, " I say, you Benson, you've been in
long enough ; you ought to have been out three
times already," was not a very unusual thing.
However, Bob went on in his steady, systematic
way, and blocked, or tried to block, every sus-
picious looking ball ; now and then only he made
a vicious cut to leg, or slipped a ball between point
and slip, with a queer look in his eye which showed
it was not altogether accidental. Pettit evidently
thought much of him, and every now and then
gave him a hint. And one day after he had kept
Bob well exercised for an hour, in fagging out for
the balls he was hitting away in his practice, that
would have been good for fours and fives in a match,
he called to Bob, " Benson, I say, come here, and
bowl me half a dozen balls. Hordern, here, won't
have the fagging you've had, I lay." Hordern,
who belonged to the eleven, and was a tall, rather
lanky, tallow-faced lad, with straight black hair,
very bilious looking, and of clearly cantankerous
capabilities, gave up the ball with a very ill grace,
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and a look which said plainly enough, " I owe
you one for this, young fellow." Bob's first ball
was rather wide, and Pettit swiped it into the
middle of next week.
" Two or three like that will make tallow- chops
smoke," he said, as he sat on his bat, waiting till
the ball was shied up ; " turn him upside down,
he'll have oil to his hair, free gratis for nothing/'
The second ball had to be blocked. The third
produced a neat catch for point.
" Mind your eye, young fellow, and don't bowl
your captain out for shame !" sung out the bats-
man, good temperedly.
It appeared as if Bob yielded due attention to
the injunction, for the fourth was sent away to
leg, and good for three at least. The next ball,
however, brought Bob his revenge for Pettit' s
" I thought you couldn't come it again;" for just
grazing the shoulder of his bat, as he thought to
block it, it took the top of the middle wicket,
shying both bails well up into the air. " Well
done, Benson, a capital ball. I'm blest if I don't
give you an innings. Now, look out for your
pins."
Bob blocked every straight ball in the first
dozen delivered ; then Pettit said,
" I mean to have your wicket three times in the
next half dozen ;" and he got it twice. But he pro-
252 THE CRICKET MATCH.
ceeded to show Bob what his fault was, and with
so much effect, that before they left off, the lad
was able to etop his instructor's best-intentioned
twisters of that particular sort.
It was quite evident that Hordern was in great
dudgeon at the kind of slight which had been
put upon him ; indeed, he was not only very angry
at being set to fag while Bob was preferred to
bowl, but he was exceedingly jealous of Bob's suc-
cess in bowling out a fellow who had stopped or
hit all his own straight balls for most of an hour ;
and not a little so, that Pettit should have taken
pains to show a chap, who was not even in the
eleven, a dodge or two. As he walked sulkily
away, Pettit just said to Bob
"That chap means mischief, if he can. Well,
he can't hurt you ; and I dare say he won't
meddle with me."
It certainly did not seem likely : as the speaker
was big enough and strong enough to tie poor
Hordern into a knot if he had chosen; besides being
known to have pluck enough to face a bull.
Well, the day fixed for the match drew on.
Great were the speculations as to the play of the
Sunbury eleven. It was rumoured that they had
one very crack player, and it was generally
believed that the Elmdon boys would have to do
their very best not to be heavily beaten. The
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practice became very close ; and it was observed
that Hordern, who was the next best bat to Pettit
and first-rate at point, was more sedulous at prac-
tice than he had ever been on any former occa-
sion, though he never worked with Pettit if he
could help it.
The morning of the great day broke at last : a
fair day, with not too much sun. The nine
o' clock train brought the Sunbury lads and their
friends; and when they stood in groups on the
playing field, it was evident that the Sunbury
boys were on the whole larger and heavier.
Pettit, however, looked over his side with un-
diminished confidence. He singled out two or
three among his opponents who looked anything
but fit for work, and unless more appeared after-
wards than he could see on the surface, he
thought eight of his own would do nearly as
much as the whole Sunbury eleven. A moment
or two after the toss-up had given the choice of
innings to Sunbury, and they had decided to go
in themselves, it was observed there was a little
commotion among the Elmdon lads. Pettit
walked up to the group, and heard the words
from one of the elder boys, who however did not
play at all,
" I don't think he'll be able to play."
" Not able to play who won't ?" cried Pettit.
254 THE CRICKET MATCH.
" Why, Hordern. I saw him five minutes
ago go into his study with his right hand all
covered with blood. He said he had been trying
to prise open a box with his knife, and the blade
slipped and had run precious deep into his hand,
and sliced it besides."
" By Jove, I expected something of the sort/ 3
exclaimed Pettit.
" How the deuce did he contrive to run the
knife into his right hand ? He's not left-handed
that ever I saw," cried Gregory.
Further talk was discontinued; for Hordern
himself appeared on the scene, sallower than ever,
which might be from pain. His hand was muffled
up, and the bandages were bloody enough.
"How did it happen?" "Is it very bad?"
"Are you much hurt?" and hosts of similar
queries were hurled at him.
"I'm very sorry," was his reply, looking at
Pettit, who was about the only one there who had
not questioned him; "but I've hurt myself so
much it is impossible for me to play. I must
go to the doctor's at once. I'm bleeding so much
I think I've cut a blood-vessel. I hope my ab-
sence won't make much difference."
There was a distinct twinkle of malice in his
eye as he said the last words, still looking at
Pettit, which the latter understood v/ell enough.
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But all he said was, " Never mind, we'll do the
best we can without you;" and turning on his
heel, he saw our friend Bob approaching, with a
green-baize bag under his arm.
"The very chap I wanted," he said; "come
along here, Benson."
" Oh ! Pettit, please I want to speak to you,
very much."
" Can't help it ; come along."
" Oh ! just a minute : something so very par-
ticular."
" All in good time ; come along, now."
Seeing he could get no hearing, Bob followed
Pettit very close. It was directly obvious why
Pettit had called him ; for entering the group of
Elmdon lads, who were talking low and anxiously
among themselves about this awkward contretemps
of Hordern's hurt, he said, " We want another to
make up the eleven ; here's the best I know ; I'll
answer for him he does his best, and I think it
won't be so bad. What do you say ?"
There was no dissentient voice, and more than
one or two of the big fellows clapped Bob on the
back, in a rough but good-humoured way, seeing
he was a bit startled at the thought of playing in
the match.
" Only stand up as well to their bowling as I
saw you to Pettit's a day or two ago," said
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Donaldson, " and they won't get rauch out of
you, whatever you get out of them."
" Nonsense, he'll be all right in five minutes ;
and the coolest among- us, you'll see, when it gets
to be work. I'll bet five to one that Benson
makes the third best score to-day."
His leader's confidence put Bob into better
heart, and after a message had been sent to the
Sunbury lads to explain the little delay which had
taken place, Pettit found time to attend to Bob's
earnest solicitations to let him speak to him.
Going a little on one side. Bob said in a very
low tone, " I'm afraid your bat is sprung."
' ' Sprung ! why, what have you been doing to it? *'
" I ! nothing. But when I went to your study
to get it, it wasn't in the same corner as I had
seen it after breakfast, and the bag was tied
different; and I was sure you hadn't meddled
with it, for you have not been there. And be-
sides " Here Bob paused. "And besides
what?" shouted Pettit, impatiently.
" I saw a drop or two of blood about."
" The deuce you did ! Here, give us the bat.
How do you know it is sprung ?"
. " I tried it. I suspected something."
" By Jove ! it is sprung. Why, it would break
m my hand with just blocking a ball. Suspected
something ! What do you suspect ?"
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"Oh ! you know, Pettit. I don't want to say
it out."
" The sneaking rascal \" cried the big fellow,
jumping to the conclusion ; " and he's hurt him-
self on purpose, or shammed it 'twould be just
like him and then gone and sprung my bat. If
I could prove it, I'd break every bone in his con-
founded body. However, it's no use talking like
that now. There isn't a bat belonging to us I
care to play with."
" Oh ! yes, there is," cried Bob ; " there's my
new one- that Sir Cuthbert Graham gave me the
other day ; and you tried it, you know, and said
you thought you would like it better than your
own, if you played a bit with it."
" But I should very likely break it. You may
depend I won't spare the balls, if I can get a hit
or two."
" Oh ! never mind that. Only you play with it.
I would rather it were broken twice over, than we
should lose the match." And so it was settled.
The Sunbury side went in, and so confident
were they in their crack man, that he was put in
first with another of their best to face him. He
seemed likely to justify their confidence, for he
scored a two and then a one from Pettit's two
first balls ; then another one having been scored
by his compeer, he stopped a straight, beautifully
258 THE CRICKET-MATCH.
bowled ball ; then scored two to leg, and then hit
a ball to field for three. The next " over" pro-
duced scarcely any addition to the score. The
other player had most of the balls, and batted very
cautiously to Donaldson's bowling. The third
over, Pettit stopped Bob as they crossed, and said
in a low tone, " You look out ; that chap will put
a ball into your hands this over, and if you miss
that but you mustn't, and you wont, I know
you'll have another before the over is out. I see
his play. Stand as you did before."
Bob believed in Pettit, and his heart went
very thumpy as he stood point. He recovered in
a moment, though, on seeing what he thought a
rather contemptuous look cast on him by the
batsman ; he was the least in the eleven, and more
than guessed at by Sunbury as the stop- gap. The
first ball was blocked ; the second, as Pettit had
foretold, went to point, but rather wide of Bob.
With a spring like a cat, the moment the ball left
the bat, the boy leaped to the left, and with out-
stretched arm caught the ball with his left hand.
Shouts of approbation reached his ears, but he
heeded them much less than Pettit's quiet " Well
done, old fellow. I knew you could. Steady now."
The match went on. The Sunbury lads made
runs very slowly ; six wickets had fallen for thirty-
five runs ; they seemed discouraged by the fall of
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their champion, and played without spirit. The
Elmdon fellows worked very quietly, but with
entire concert ; and it was evident to a discerning
observer, that they had been well drilled, and
knew and depended on each other thoroughly.
Bob had worked in his post beautifully, and not a
ball had passed him that he ought to have stopped.
One of the original batters was still in, but his
score was only low, his style of playing seeming
to consist in blocking every ball which looked
straight, and making secure hits for ones or twos.
Pettit had tried him two or three ways, but the
same caution foiled every attempt. At last it
occurred to him to try a ball which, if it failed,
would give his opponents a four at least, but
which he thought might, if played in the batsman's
usual style, hop lightly into the hands of point,
who was instructed to go four or five paces further
back on purpose. However, the player changed
his tactics, and striking the ball with great force,
partly turning as he did so, drove it straight for
Bob's face. It appeared impossible for a boy to
stop such a ball, and Pettit quite trembled as he
saw the stroke and the direction the ball took.
Luckily, Bob was quite cool as well as very quick
eyed, and the ball was stopped ; and more, held ;
though the lad was evidently staggered by it.
'Twas the best catch of the day, and a very hard
260 THE CRICKET-MATCH. .
one ; and Bob's satisfaction was not lessened at
seeing the Doctor among the bystanders, and
joining in the applause. The total score of Sun-
bury was only fifty-nine, including byes and
wides, and then Elmdon went in. Donaldson
and Graves went in first ; the latter laid down his
bat for three runs, Donaldson had made five, and
was evidently in play. Pettit went in now, and
dealt gently enough with his opponent's balls at
first, certainly not in that imitating Donaldson.
But in his third over, having only got a couple of
twos and a one so far, a ball which was pitched
just a few inches too far was fairly caught low on
the end of Bob's new bat, and sent far out beyond
long-field. This added five to the score ; two
more hits succeeded, each good for two, when
Donaldson went out, leg before wicket, with
nineteen against his name. Bloxam now took
the bat and stood long enough to make eleven ;
Pettit's score continuing to run up gallantly, and
one or two of the puffy bodied, pasty-faced Sun-
bury lads, whom Pettit's discriminating eye had
fixed upon as not likely to last if there was work
to do, rather showing signs of distress. As
Bloxam's wicket fell, somebody in the Elmdon
tent said, " Send Benson in : old Pettit would like
it. You don't mind it, do you, Hickson and
Gregory?"
BOB'S INNINGS. 261
" Not I," said Gregory ; " the small chap's a
brick. I know I should have come to grief with
that ball he stopped. Go in, old fellow, and show
'em how to win."
Bob was compelled to go, much against both
his inclination and expectation, and Hickson lent
him his bat, which, in fact, was much nearer his
size than his own. One ball only remained before
over was called ; and a good ball it was ; but Bob
blocked it capitally, and then he began to breathe
a little more freely. The next ball in succession
Pettit caught fairly again, and drove it far over
off-field's head, making another five.
As they ran the last, Pettit said as they were
passing, " Cool's the word."
" Cool it is," rapped out Bob.
It was now his turn. Two dangerous balls he
dealt with carefully ; the third he cut to leg, and
made three. The Sunbury bowling was now
much inferior to what it had been earlier in the
match, and was certainly inferior to what Bob
had often stood against before; and when at
last his wicket was lowered, it was with two
threes, five twos, and as many single runs placed
in a line with his name. Pettit held his bat, and
did not break it, though he certainly tried it with
some of his swipes, until there remained but one
wicket to go down, and then was run out. His
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score amounted to 68, and when at length the
last Elmdon wicket fell, the total runs in the
innings reached no less a figure than 195, to which
were to be added, for byes and wides, 13
more. When the second innings commenced, it
was soon apparent that Sunbury was already
beaten. The crack batsman went out for three
runs only. The best score was made by a wiry
fellow called North, a little taller than, but not so
stout as Bob. He managed to get seventeen
against Pettit's steadiest bowling; and if the
others had done half as well as he did, the game
might yet have been much more stiffly contested ;
but three bats were carried out with three round O's
to their bearers' names ; and the innings only
produced in all 67 runs, leaving as the grand
result of the day's play that Elmdon had won in
a single innings, with 52 runs to spare.
Several of the bigger lads went down with their
opponents to the station in the evening ; Pettit
among them, and with him Bob and his friend
Jack, who was immensely delighted at his cousin's
exploits. Bob was very modest over it all, and
at once acknowledged that it was only determina-
tion to stop the ball, at whatever cost, if he could,
more than seconded by luck, which had enabled
him to achieve the catch. He did not expect it a
bit. As to the score, Jack himself might have
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(
made it against such bowling. On their return
from the station, after the departure of their late
antagonists, they met Mr. Kearsley, the surgeon,
who was always called in at the school. He con-
gratulated Pettit on the issue of the match,
" which he supposed," he said, " had been con-
tested under disadvantage. Had not the Elmdon
side to go to work with one of its best players
short ?"
' ' Yes/' replied Pettit, " we had ; and I was
bothered at first ; but this youngster here, whom
we draughted in, made our loss a very light one.
Pray, is Hordern's hand much injured ?"
" Not that I know of. Why do you ask me ?"
" Why, he came to you with it, didn't he ? He
surely said he was coming, as he left us before the
match began."
" Well, he has not been to the surgery to-day ;
nor have I heard anything of or from him."
Pettit and his young companions walked on,
the former rather gruffly stopping a remark Bob
ventured about the contradiction between the sur-
geon's statement of facts, and Hordern's state-
ment of purpose. On returning to the school-
yard, Hordern was seen crossing it with his hand
in a sling.
" I'm sorry to see you so much hurt, Hordern,"
said Pettit ; " are you likely to be lame long ?"
264 THE CRICKET-MATCH.
" I'm afraid so. It is very painful, and 1 was
told at Kearsley's I must take care of it."
" Why I" exclaimed Bob, " Mr. Kearsley said
he hadn't seen you, just now, when we met him
in the street, and Pettit asked if you were badly
hurt."
" Did I say Kearsley's ? I ought to have said
old Coleman's," stammered Hordern, and moved
away from the group.
" Benson, I say," said a voice close to Bob's
elbow, " that isn't true. I was at the back of my
uncle's shop when Hordern went in, and I heard
my uncle ask him what was the matter with his
hand, and he said he had cut it badly, and was
going to Mr. Kearsley's or else that he had
been I forget which."
" Pettit, did you hear that ?" asked Bob, in a
low voice.
"Yes," said he, " who was it spoke to you?"
" One of the day-boys. Old Coleman the
chemist's nephew, son of Mr. Coleman the lawyer.
He's in our class."
" Does he know Hordern well ?"
" He had need. I saw Hordern lick him last
week hard enough to make him know him again
the next time."
" Well, say no more about it. Hordern's lying,
that's clear. It will all come out some dav."
TREACHERY. 265
The next day Pettit took Bob into his study,
and proceeded to examine his bat handle, taking
off the whipping for the purpose. The cracked
part of the handle presented in one place a rather
unusual appearance it appeared to have been cut,
rather than merely cracked, but the cut was very
narrow. He could not make it out. The mys-
tery was solved, however, when he broke the frac-
tured part quite off ; for there, embedded in the
wood of the handle, was the upper end of a sharp
pen-knife, which had been so ground, or other-
wise dealt with, that the back was as sharp as the
edge j being very like a lancet-point in fact. The
knife had penetrated fully half an inch deep, in
two places nearly close to each other, and had
broken off in the second. That some malicious
person had done it was at once evident. Who
that person was, was quite another matter. Pettit
saw clearly enough that the pen-blade had been
introduced between the plies of the whipping, and
very cautiously forced in. It seemed probable
that in making the second incision less caution
had been used, and that a break had taken place
in consequence ; very likely indeed almost cer-
tainly wounding the hand of the operator. He
carefully secured the bit of broken steel, and at
the cost of some trouble and time, removed the
whole of the inserted handle ; then sending his
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bat, without any comment on his discovery, by
an ordinary messenger to the usual quarter for
repairs.
It might be almost a week after the match, and
when the return match at Sunbury was drawing
very near, that a stump was broken when Pettit,
our friend Bob, Gregory, and another, were play-
ing in anticipation of the second conflict; and
Pettit, taking a bit of string from his pocket,
bound together the splintered parts ; but having,
as he found, left his own knife in his study, he
asked for the loan of one to cut off the ends of
string. Bob's sailor-knife was not forthcoming
in the cricket-field, but Gregory produced his.
Pettit observed that the pen-blade was broken
short off across the nail-groove. He merely re-
marked, " Your pen-blade is broken."
"Yes," said Gregory, "Tallowface had it the
day of the match ; and broke it, he said, in trying
to lift the top lid of his desk."
The playing-time came to an end shortly
after this, and Pettit asked Gregory just to go
with him to his study, as he had something
there to show him. " Benson, you come too,"
he added.
The three therefore entered the " den" together.
Pettit took out the broken piece of knife he had
taken from his bat-handle, and asked Gregory
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to fit it to his broken blade. It corresponded
precisely.
"Now, Benson, just you tell Gregory where
I found that, and how."
Bob gave a very concise account, Pettit pro-
ducing the splintered bat-handle as he did so.
Pettit then added, that they knew that Hordern
had prevaricated and lied about his hurt hand, and
they believed that the whole history of the hurt
was a sham, and a part of the plan to get the
Elmdon side beaten if possible. Gregory saw it
immediately ; but when Pettit declared he would
go and knock the lying sneak's head off, he at once
dissented strongly from any such proceeding,
alleging that all the eleven were concerned, and
suggesting that that very day they should hold a
sort of court-martial upon him, and act accord-
ingly.
After school hours in the afternoon, therefore,
the members of the eleven, Hordern included,
together with Bob as de facto one of them, were
assembled. Gregory speedily introduced the real
business of the meeting, which all but himself,
Pettit, and Bob had supposed to be something in
connexion with the return match, to be played
so shortly at Sunbury. Bob spoke to having
observed that the bat had been removed from its
place, and the bag retied, and to his discovery
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that it was sprung ; also to the traces of blood in
the study. Pettit described the finding of the
broken blade in the bat-handle, which Bob cor-
roborated, and then produced the bat-handle and
broken blade. Gregory produced the knife itself,
accounted for its being sharpened on both edges at
the point, spoke of his lending it to Hordern whole
on the morning of the match, and receiving it back
broken the next day when he asked for it ; and
related the account given him by the borrower of
the way in which it had been broken. Hordern,
against whom the case certainly appeared utterly
conclusive, still protested his innocence. Gregory
was furious, and repeated the history of Hordern's
shuffling and lying about going to the surgeon' s,
concluding with "In two words, I don't believe
his hand was hurt at all, beyond an ordinary
cut across the knuckles from the stump of the
blade shutting down on them when it broke, as
he was piercing the bat-handle to make it crack
easy."
11 By Jove, we'll see," cried Donaldson, throw-
ing himself upon Hordern, and mastering both
arms, one of which was still in the sling.
" Here, Gregory, strip those muffles off his
hand. Be careful not to hurt him, where he told
us the stab and cut were."
No sooner said than done ; but tenderness was
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altogether unnecessary. There had been a cut,
evidently rather deep, across the side and outside
of his forefinger, just reaching to the next finger.
The latter was quite healed, the other nearly so ;
and the verdict of the self- constituted jury was
unanimous.
"No, no, Pettit; no private thrashing here,
Kick him out ; aye, with your feet too, if you
like ; and never speak to the mean hound again. "
Three or four kicks reached him as he made his
hasty escape from the room, and it is hardly
needful to add that his departure from the school
was not long delayed.
The return match was played in due time.
Bob was now regularly installed as one of the
eleven, and did good service, both with the bat
and in the place in the field which he had before
occupied. Indeed, after the match, Pettit was
heard to say that he would make a good wicket
keeper with another year's practice. The match
was certainly a better contested one than the
former had been ; but still the result had hardly
been doubtful at any period of the game. Sun-
bury scored eighty-seven the first innings, and
seventy-eight the second. Elmdon made 121 the
first score, and had five wickets to go down the
second innings. Bob and Pettit carried out their
bats at the close of the game, having contributed
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no less than seventy-seven runs in all to the day's
score. Soon after this the school broke up for
the half-year, and after a kind leave-taking of the
Doctor, Bob and Jack found themselves en route
for Mr. Spencer's, in acceptance of the invitation
he had given them on the occasion of his visit to
Elmdon.
CHAPTER XIV.
Beginning of the Holidays Dunchester and its Castle Roman
Bank Hareborougk Cuckoo's Eggs Nuthatches.
THE two boys in due time reached Dunchester
Station. Here they found Mr. Spencer waiting
for them, and very little time elapsed before they
and their carpet-bags were rattling along behind
that gentleman's pretty grey ponies towards the
old town. Steep North-street soon brought the
ponies to a walk, and then, on turning into High-
street, the old Collegiate Church met their view ;
passing which they came in sight of Dunchester
Castle, an ancient fortress, and wearing a rather
extraordinary appearance, from its construction,
in great part, of old Roman materials, under the
guidance of Norman art. Mr. Spencer told the
lads to get out here and take a look round the old
building, which, he said, was worth their atten-
tion.
Jack who, if anything, had got to be rather
more " up" in antiquities than Bob, by the help
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of the books Dr. Noble had lent him, and from
the interest which they powerfully exercised over
his imagination at once observed a very unusual
appearance.
" Here is a trench/' said he, " almost close to
the Castle, which I am sure is only the keep of
the original fortress, and there never could have
been a moat here then/'
Mr. Spencer, pleased with the lad's intelligence,
explained that there was no uncertainty as to the
origin of the seeming moat. The place had been
occupied by the Royalists in the Great Rebellion,
and was a position of great importance to them,
as commanding much of the surrounding district ;
and, consequently, additional fortifications had
been thrown up round the old Castle, which pro-
cess, among other similar results, had led to the
seeming moat which lay before them. Other
traces of the entrenchments were very noticeable
in the adjoining gardens, though now separated
from the Castle yard by the garden wall. The
place had been so strong, and of such importance,
that at last Cromwell himself had come to try and
effect its reduction ; and eventually he had suc-
ceeded, but not until starvation and the utter im-
possibility of succour from without had rendered it
equally impossible and foolish to attempt to con-
tinue the defence. Mr. Spencer went on to tell
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the boys of Roman remains in and about Dun-
chester, mentioning especially a tesselated pave-
ment of great beauty, and nearly perfect, which
had been dug upon, in the outskirts of the town,
on the site of what subsequent researches had sup-
plied good reason for believing to have been a
Prsetorial residence. The name of this place by
which it had been known long before the dis-
covery of these remains ; indeed, time out of mind
justified the impression that it had been a place
of importance in the Roman history of the island.
It was called Roman Bank.
" We shall pass it," said Mr. Spencer, ' ' as we
drive home/'
By this time they were in the carriage again ;
and, turning out of the main street, he pointed
out to the lads remains of another description,
themselves testifying as the Castle did to the
remains of a still earlier period, through the
Roman bricks plentifully wrought into the inter-
lacing arches of a large fragment of a Norman
conventual building, of great and elaborate
beauty. " St. Beowulph's Priory," Mr. Spencer
called it.
Jack immediately began to cross-question him
as to the extent of the original building, its mag-
nitude, date, what part of it the existing re-
mains were supposed to have been, and so on ;
T
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which the gentleman replied to as well as he
could, and promised to call in the aid of the
county history, on their arrival at his house, to
answer better.
Roman Bank, as they passed it, appeared to
both boys to justify the judgment of the Roman
Governor of the district in selecting it as the site
of his residence ; but the sight of the sea, as they
reached the highest point of the little elevation so
called where a modern house and gardens, abut-
ting on the road, occupied the very site of the
Roman villa turned their thoughts and inquiries
in another direction. Mr. Spencer told them not
to expect such a coast as they told him they had
seen, more to the north, their last summer holi-
days. There was no beach at all, he said, and no
sands. The sea was only kept from encroaching
on some of the land at present under cultivation
by a system of sea-walling ; in other words, by
large earthen dykes or walls, eight or ten feet
high, and half as much again in thickness at their
base, but sloping rapidly up on each side, so as
not to be more than four or five feet broad at top.
These, he said, had to be well looked to and kept
in thorough repair, and in places protected against
the dash of the waves, by rows of piles gradually
rising behind each other, and by large quantities
of blocks of chalk brought thither in barges from
SEA-WALLS. 275
the adjoining county. If suffered to grow weak
through neglect, the sea at some spring tide, and
aided and abetted by a strong wind might break
through, and lay a large space of the land within
the wall under water. In some places cultivation
was pushed almost or quite to the very foot of the
sea-wall; in others, large tracts lay still in much the
same condition as when it was first reclaimed from
the sea by the construction of the wall ; except
that now all the water in all the channels, and
ditches, and fleets was fresh, and the herbage was
a coarsish kind of grass.
Being asked to explain what " fleets" were, he
said that in many parts of the marshes there were
long pieces of water of considerable breadth, and
which, perhaps, had once been the main channels
of the sea-water ; that these were now, as he had
said, filled with fresh water, and tenanted by
coots, and dabchicks, and wild-ducks during the
spring and summer ; that the ditches, or " marsh-
ditches" as usually called, were partly the divi-
sions between different properties or different
parts of the same marsh, and served in some
degree to facilitate the natural and most imperfect
drainage of the marshes. The lads were extremely
interested by these descriptions, but found so
much that was new to them in the prospect before
their eyes, that they soon turned to question Mr.
276 THE HOLIDAYS BEGUN.
Spencer on some new topic. " What a quantity
of boats there are there/' began Bob :
" Yes/' broke in Jack. " Fve counted more
than a hundred, twice ; but I can't get them quite
exactly : they move so much, or we do."
" What are they after ?" continued Bob. " How
different they look from the herring-boats I saw
last July at Cliffborough they have only one
mast, and those boats had two ; and the sails are
different. What sort of boats are they, Mr.
Spencer, and what are they doing ?"
" Almost all of them are dredgers," was the
reply. " They are dredging for oysters young
oysters, that is ; or, as the fishermen would call
it, ' Spat.' A. few of them are sailing, if you ob-
serve ; but most of them have only the mainsail
set, and that brailed up more or less. All those
are dredgers ; the others are probably trawl -boats,
going out to their fishing, or, perhaps, returning,
as I think I see some distinctly making for Long-
sea-roads, and not simply tacking to get an
offing."
" Oh, Mr. Spencer, what are dredgers? what
are trawl-boats ? and what is tacking to get an
offing ?" cried Bob, half-laughing at his ignorance
of these new terms.
" You must see with your own eyes," said Mr.
Spencer, smiling. " You will understand better
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and remember better too, after seeing, than by any
description I can give you. Tacking to get an
offing I can perhaps explain to you. Do you
notice which way the wind is ? right in our faces.
Now notice the direction of that strip of sea which
runs up into the land and loses itself there, just
this side of those trees. The wind must be blow-
ing nearly up that. Now Longsea-roads are there
not roads like this we are driving over, but an
open anchorage and you know a ship or boat
cannot sail against the wind with only the wind
to help it. So they make cuts backwards and
forwards across the direction of the wind, trying
to sail as much against the wind as their sails and
the good properties of their boats will permit,
making thus indirect gains in the way of the de-
sired progress."
" Oh, yes," said Bob, " I know that process is
called tacking : but ' tacking to get an offing ?' "
" Oh, that's simple enough, if you know what
tacking is. They continue making tacks until
they have made good so much distance in an
opposite direction to that of the wind, as to be
enabled to lay their course ; i.e., to sail straight
away to the point they desire to reach. All these
boats, you see, are fore-and-aft, or sloop-rigged,
and they can sail much closer to the wind than
square-rigged craft. Those herring-boats you
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spoke of just now were yawl-rigged, I take it,
with two masts at least most of them or even
three, an occasional one ; each fitted with a lug-
sail ; but I think they seldom set a foresail. These
set both foresail and jib, as you see I mean
those long, three-cornered sails in the forward
part of the boat, and projecting beyond it and
by taking care to have those and the large four-
cornered sail on the after side of the mast pro-
perly set, they can sail within a certain number
of points of the wind ; that is to say, suppose the
wind blows from the south as it does now nearly
they can not only sail to the west or the east,
as they choose, but more or less to the northward
of the west or east, according to the weatherly
property of the boat."
During part of this explanation, they had de-
scended a little hill, and had to ascend a corre-
sponding one on the further side of a little brook
which crossed the road in the valley. On reaching
the summit, they looked over a part of the sea
which had not been in sight before.
" Oh, what is that large black vessel, which is
lying there, without masts or funnel either, so
that she can't be a steamer? Has she lost her
masts in a storm ?"
" No, no," laughed Mr. Spencer, " no such bad
luck as that. That's the ' Rattlesnake/ an old
SMUGGLING. , 279
sloop of war. We call her the guard-ship. Her
object in being there and she has been there
several years now is in connexion with the Pre*
ventive Service. In fact, besides being so placed
that nothing can pass in or out of Longsea-roads
unnoticed by her, she is a sort of barrack for the
officer and his crew, who form our Coastguard."
" Oh ! Mr. Spencer, do you mean that you
have any real smugglers here ?" cried Jack almost
breathlessly ; " and are there fights between them
and the Preventive men ?"
" Well, not exactly that ; and not much smug-
gling even. But I remember, about ten years
ago, a rather exciting chase of a smuggling vessel
by the long row-boat belonging to the ' Rattle-
snake/ which ended in the capture of the boat and
part of its contents, and the escape of the creAv,
who met with lots of sympathy and assistance
from the Ringsbury people over yonder. For
they helped them off with fifty or sixty kegs of
hollands and brandy, which they concealed in a
straw-stack, about a mile from the place at which
the spirits had been landed. Unluckily for the
smugglers, one thirsty old woman, who was in the
secret and had gone to fetch a keg, could not
wait till she got home to tap it, but did so close
by, and was found fearfully drunk by one of the
coastguard men. He took the hint, and a famous
280 THE HOLIDAYS BEGUN.
haul he made of it. I made a haul once myself.
I was out spruling "
' ' Please, what's spruling ?" cried both boys at
once.
" Oh ! hook-fishing in the salt water with a
peculiar apparatus for the hooks to hang from.
I'll show you to-morrow. Well, as I was saying,
I was out spruling, and I observed a flat bit of
cork dancing in the sea not far from me. I
thought nothing of it, supposing it lost from some
net, and took no more notice of it. Sometime
after, casting my eye in the same direction, I saw
the same piece of cork in the same place. Now,
as the tide was making strongly, it ought, if floating
free, to have advanced a considerable distance;
a mile or more, perhaps. My curiosity was of
course excited, and I told my man to lift the
anchor while I took the oars and pulled a stroke
or two in the direction of the cork. Laying them
in directly I had way enough on her, I reached
over the gunwale as we passed, and found the
cork fast to a bit of sea-line. Hauling on this, a
rope end followed. Pursuing the discovery, the
rope, which had something moveable, and not
light, at its other end as we soon found
brought up as we dragged it in hand over hand,
a string of kegs, which had been weighted with
old ballast to keep them down, and then their
FISHING UP SPIRITS. 281
position marked by the old cork float ; the bear-
ings of which no doubt were accurately known.
Further investigations, with a grappling iron we
had on board, revealed another string of kegs,
and, I think, I soon had more than a dozen in.
I made my man throw in a bit of ballast at the
place with the cork attached as before, and then
we pulled with our cargo straight to the Rattle-
snake, and, hailing the man on duty, asked for
Lieut. Bainbridge. I had thrown a rough coat
over the kegs, so that he could not see them;
and when he came to the side, I told him I had
information of a cargo of hollands which it was
proposed to run under his very nose. He rather
laughed at the idea that / should have informa-
tion of such a thing. However, he said
" When ? and by whom ?"
"My answer was, ' To-day; and by Thomas
Spencer, of the True Blue/ '
" Ah ! I see," he replied. " That pea-jacket
doesn't quite cover the end of that keg."
" Amused to find my secret thus discovered, I
told him all about our capture, and made the kegs
over to him, telling him there might be more,
and offering to go back at once with him and
show him where we had found these we had just
given him. He had a couple of men in his gig in
a minute, and in less than half-an-hour, was hard
282 THE HOLIDAYS BEGUN.
at work with drags ; Tom Ling, my man, having
taken very accurate bearings of the position of the
float by Longsea Church tower, and a post on
Sunk Island. I did not wait to see the result,
but the lieutenant told me a day or two after at
Dunchester, where I happened to meet him, that
they had found seven more kegs there, and another
float with twelve more connected with it, a little
further out. He added, he believed he knew all
about them. A suspected boat had sailed in the
night before ; the look-out had hailed her, and
hearing her name, communicated with him imme-
diately. He went on board, and searched her,
but nothing turned up. He had pretty sure in-
formation, and had suspected something was
wrong when she sailed in so boldly. So he had
moved about for three or four hours afterwards
with the cutter ; and no doubt, had baffled the
smuggler, whose purpose had probably been to
slip out in small boats during the night, and run
the spirits in small lots. No doubt, either, he
added, they would have had it the next night, but
for you. Such ' luck to my fishing ' often, he
wished me. And so did old Tom, for he got a
tip of a sovereign for his part in the capture, and
had no squeamishness about taking it. But here
we are, at Hareborough," he suddenly said, turning
up a short lane which terminated at a gate lead-
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ing into a sort of half paddock, half park, divided
by a straight gravel drive, with young limes on
each side of it, which again led into a rectangular
gravelled courtyard, extending along the back of
the house, and flanked on one of the shorter sides
by certain offices, on the other long side by tall
palings, which shut in a small farmyard, with barn
and farming stables. The riding- stables were
at the other end of the barn, and did not open
into the farm-yard at all. The offices reached
to within a few feet of the corner, and in the cor-
ner was a wicket-gate, which admitted to a foot-
path that ran for some distance along the edge of
a considerable sheet of water, one side of which
extended along and beyond the farm-yard, the
yard being separated from the water by a tall and
thick haulm wall. The footpath led through
another wicket into the churchyard, one side of
which was bounded by the water, with a long row
of elms that had been pollarded, but seemed to
have almost outgrown the operation, between.
The boys had just time to observe all this, when
Mr. Spencer led them into the house through a
door which stood open, but was, so to speak, pro-
tected by a half-door with a sort of magnified
ruler, as Bob called it, set full of projecting wooden
spikes, revolving above it at the slightest touch.
" What's it for?" he enquired.
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" Oh ! only to keep my dogs out. They are
great pets, and think they have a right to go
where I go ; but we don't want them indoors, and
we like to have this door open for the sake of the
air. So this contrivance is put up to keep the
dogs from leaping over."
Entering by this door, they proceeded through
a passage of some length, opening on either side
to the kitchens and servants' offices; and then
through a heavy folding-door into a large open
hall, with a handsome polished oak staircase rising
from it to a sort of corridor, which looked almost
like a gallery to the hall, and served to give ad-
mission to the principal apartments upstairs.
But our young friends' eyes did not dwell upon
these features of the hall ; but rather upon the
view which greeted them through the large front-
door, which stood wide open, and the porch by
which it was approached. The sea lay there in
all its beauty, and a creek ran up to within less
than half a mile of the house, which stood at the
summit of a gentle rise. This little hill having
been ascended from the opposite side, had shut
out from the visitors all prospect in the direction
in which the open sea lay, and the surprise was
proportionably greater at finding it so near them.
The village and church of Longsea were seen
across another channel at no very great distance ;
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but the cousins were chiefly interested with the
information that the tapering mast they saw below
the garden and over some low trees, with a blue
pendant streaming from it, belonged to the True
Blue ; a vessel they were to be more particularly
introduced to on the morrow, as Mr. Spencer had
promised them on their journey.
On entering the drawing-room, they found three
ladies there, Mrs. Spencer and her two daughters.
Between the birthdays of the two young ladies
several years had intervened, the younger being
only just Bob's age. Bob was no stranger to
Mrs. Spencer, having seen her twice on different
occasions within the last three years, and on one of
them, her eldest daughter had been with her.
The younger lady he had not seen before ; but he
was on terms of close alliance with her almost
immediately, for she had Hewitson's "Eggs of
British Birds " before her, as her father and his
young guests entered the room, and a few moments
after the introductions were over, she said to him,
as he bent over her, " I can't make it out at all,
papa."
' ' Oh \" said he in reply, " ask my friend Bob
here ; he knows the egg of every bird that flies.
Don't you, Bob ?"
" No, indeed, sir ; I wish I did. But I will
try and help Miss Spencer, if I can/'
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She showed him four eggs when he went up to
her that the gardener' s lad had brought in. The
account that he gave of them was, that as he was
passing along to the farm stable with some mes-
sage to the horseman, he saw the cat leap up
against the side of the haulm wall and seize a
bird, with which she made off quite hastily when
she saw him approaching : that on looking at the
place she had sprung at, he saw a nest hanging
partly out of the wall, which he had taken out as
carefully as he could, together with the eggs it
contained, and had brought to her in the garden,
as he knew she had rather a fancy that way. He
told her they were sparrow's eggs, but she didn't
think so. The nest wasn't a sparrow's nest she
was sure, and though the eggs were not unlike
sparrow's eggs in some respects, yet there was a
sort of general dissimilarity which forbad her to
think that any sparrow had ever laid them. Bob
agreed with her they were not sparrow's eggs.
He asked to see the nest : it lay just outside
on the window-sill, and, as he saw, was made
of roots and dry grasses, with a lining of hair
and very fine roots. Coming back to her he
said,
" I think I know the eggs now: the nest I am
almost sure is a water wagtail's."
'' Oh ! I looked at that egg in Hewitson, but it
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wasn't at all like ;" and she turned to it again to
convince Bob of the alleged fact.
Bob took the book, and looking at the descrip-
tion facing the plate, showed her the last para-
graph.
" Oh ! thank you/' she cried delightedly ; " how
stupid I was not to look there. Do just come
here and look at all my eggs ;" moving to an old-
fashioned ebony cabinet which stood a little on
one side of her.
The next half hour was taken up in writing
labels, and naming eggs, and setting them on their
cards ; while Jack he did not know how it came
about was holding silk for Miss Spencer to wind,
and talking away with her and Mrs. Spencer as if
he had known them half his life, much to Bob's
surprise when he had time to look up from his
own occupation to see what Jack was up to ; and
no less to Jack's own when he thought of it after-
wards. The fact was, Miss Spencer knew how to
deal with a rather shy lad, and set him to work
with her silk, thus giving him something besides his
own uncomfortable feelings to think about, in the
occupation of his hands ; and then two or three
questions, judiciously put, set his tongue in
motion. When Bob had quite done all he could
for the little girl's small egg collection, he said
to her with the quaint sort of half brusque kind-
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ness and politeness a healthy-minded boy in-
stinctively adopts in speaking to a girl not older
than himself,
" Is there anything else I can help you with,
Miss Spencer?"
" Oh, yes ; I daresay I shall find plenty for you
to do, if you are always as kind as you are now.
Only you mustn't call me Miss Spencer ; it is so
tiresome and grand : everybody calls me Tay."
" But your name isn't Tay ?"
" Oh, no," she said, laughing ; " my name is
Sarah, but they all call me Tay."
Presently, after carefully putting away her
newly- arranged eggs and closing the cabinet, she
resumed,
" Did you ever find a cuckoo's eggs ?"
" Oh, yes," said the lad ; " but why do you
ask ?"
" Oh ! there are two now in different nests in
the garden ; one in a greenfinch's nest, built in a
row of peas, and the other in a chaffinch's nest in
the clipped hedge between the kitchen-garden and
this one in front. Last year we had one in a
hedgesparrow's nest in one of those thick shrubs.
Will you come into the garden and see them ?"
Bob willingly assented, and as they went on
their visits of inspection, detailed to her his own
experiences in finding cuckoo's eggs. One he
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had takeii from a house sparrow's nest, built in a
hole in the eaves of a barn. He was quite sure
it was a cuckoo's egg, for he kept it together with
the other eggs obtained from the same nest ; and
their difference in shape and size, and markings
and general colour, was most apparent to anybody.
In fact, the undoubted sparrow's eggs were un-
usually light coloured, and five in number : the
egg he described as the cuckoo's egg was a dark
coloured one for such an egg, and perceptibly
larger than the others. Another he had found
on the moor, in a titlark's nest. The nest in
question was found in the side of a cavity left in
the surface of the moor by the extraction of a
large block of stone, and was so placed that a tuft
of moor grass and short ling overhung it so closely
and completely, that barely room was left for the
little owner to pass in and out. " This nest,"
continued Bob, " quite settled all my doubts as to
whether or no the cuckoo laid her egg in the nest
in the orthodox way, or as nearly so as she can
contrive ; or laid it first -on the ground most
likely and put it in, with her foot or bill, after
wards. The woodcock is known to carry its young
and sometimes an egg, with its feet ; but I cer-
tainly think myself the cuckoo uses its bill for the
purpose of dropping its egg into the nest it has
selected for the deposit. I don't think it could
u
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have put the egg into the titlark's nest I men-
tioned just now with its foot ; with its bill the
feat would have been easy enough."
Bob added further that he believed the cuckoo
deposited its eggs in the nests of fourteen or fif-
teen different birds ; those of the hedgesparrow,
water wagtail, and titlark being more frequently
selected, and that of the blackbird least often.
Some people said they did not pair : but he was
talking to a Yorkshire gentleman last holidays,
who said there were a great many in his district,
and he continually saw them in pairs. They sat on
the espaliers in his garden within gunshot of his
study window, and he had them under his ob-
servation ten times a day. Only one of the
two seemed to sing, and if one came or flew
away, the other always followed it without much
delay.
Jack was now seen approaching them. He said
Miss Spencer was gone to put her bonnet on,
and would join them in ten minutes, to walk
down to the water-edge before dinner. Almost
before he had concluded this announcement, he
cried,
" Surely that is a nuthatch's note, Bob ! Didn't
you think so ?'
" Yes, indeed I did ; and more, I can see
him. See, there he is walking across that tree.
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Have yon them often in the garden, Miss
Spencer ?"
She held up her finger at him, laughing.
"Well then, Tay," he said with a sort of
effort.
" Yes, we see them every now and then ; they
are such pretty birds. I like them so much, and
to see them creeping up and down, and sideways,
and all ways, and hear them hammering away so
cheerfully and workingly."
" Why don't you tame them, Miss Tay, I
mean."
" Tame them ! How can I ?" asked Tay. " I
couldn't catch them, and I wouldn't if I could :
what do you mean ?"
" Oh !" said Jack, " he's got a history about
nuthatches which he promised to tell me one day,
and he never did ; tell us it now, Bob. "
" Oh ! do tell us ; I should like to hear it so
much," entreated Tay.
"Well, I don't mind," he said; "but I
think you ought to call me ( Bob' if I call you
'Tay.'"
" No, that 1 won't; but I'll call you Robert
sometimes."
Bob, who was only too glad to do or tell any-
thing by which he could give pleasure, began
at once.
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"When I had the measles, I was obliged to
leave school for some weeks, and I went to stop at
my Uncle Charles'. The very first day I was
there I saw a bird, with a slate blue back and an
orange breast, come on to a low tree a mulberry
tree it was that stood near the window of the
breakfast-room; and there it walked about in a very
quaint sort of way. You may be sure I wasn't long
in getting down old Bewick, and I soon made out
ray bird was a nuthatch. I thought to myself
what capital fun it would be, if I could make
that fellow come for his breakfast every morning
when we got ours. So I went out and got a lot
of nuts at a little shop in the village, and stuck a
lot about the tree in cracks and crannies. By the
third morning they had all been removed. Well,
I put some more; and they soon went too. In
about a week the nuthatches for there were two of
them, it appeared began to frequent the tree ten
times a day. I thought now I would put the
nuts there just before we sat down to breakfast.
I did so, and I was scarcely in my place at the
breakfast-table, before Mr. and Mrs. Nuthatch
were at theirs. But they got the nuts out too
quickly, and flew off with them to some tall trees
near, never staying to crack them where they
found them. I wanted more fun out of my nuts
than just to see them found and carried off; so I
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hit upon the plan of cracking them first, and then
fastening them, with good strong pins, to a place
where a large branch that had threatened to grow
through the window had been sawn oif. It was a
sort of table with its face turned sideways, as you
do sometimes see tables when they are put out of
the way against the wall, or in a corner. My
nuthatches came us usual, and thought to cut off
with the nuts as heretofore ; but the pins effectually
prevented that. Foiled in his first effort, the bird
tried another plan ; he fixed himself with his
grasping feet, as if upon a pivot, and giving three
or four hearty blows he didn't ' peck' the nuts ;
it was a hammer-like action of the whole body
with his bill, the nut flew into two or three pieces.
One was seized and carried off; and then the other
bird the hen, no doubt, which always waited till
her mate was out of the way before she began to
provide for herself, and always retreated from the
feast as soon as she was aware of his return ; and
with the favour of a good hard peck, moreover, if
he did ever catch her at work slipped down from
some higher part of the tree and began to partake
of what he had left, or to operate in a similar way,
on her own account, on some other nut. I kept
on with this plan all the time I was there, and at
last they got so tame they would sit on the
tree, not half a yard from me, while I was putting
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up the nuts. And if I wanted them any other
time in the day, a few taps on the feeding tree
with my hammer I used an old bullet-mould, I
remember, for that purpose would generally
bring them. They would even follow rne to dif-
ferent trees about the garden ; and before I left,
I used to throw nuts up in the air to them, which
they ilew after, and almost always caught, with
their bills, before they fell back to the ground.
Another pair, at another house, I enticed in the
same way to come and feed on the window-sill of
the library ; but I was not so much there, and
they soon discontinued the practice. One dodge I
tried, used to make the whole party at breakfast
laugh heartily. Other birds soon began to come
besides the nuthatches, particularly two or three
sorts of titmice ; the cole-mouse, the blue tit, and
the ox-eye, especially the first and last. Robins
and hedge-sparrows, too, often came. The nut-
hatches pitched into all these, and not even the
plucky robins dared show fight; although they
succeeded in putting all the rest to flight. The
tomtits nibbled at the nuts they couldn't be
said to peck at them and it took them a long
time to get as much as half a nut. So they hadn't
much more chance to get a fair share than the
stork at the fox's house in the fable. So I tried
what threading a few nuts on strong glover's
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thread, stretched between the tree and the window,
would do. The nuthatches, of course, tried to get
them ; but they soon gave up the effort in disgust,
for they couldn't hold comfortably by the thread,
and they couldn't work at the nuts without some
purchase for their feet. The tits especially the
blue ones on the other hand, clung by their fine
claws, and hanging with their back downwards,
worked away at the nuts untiringly. To be sure,
when those placed specially for the nuthatches
were all removed, those birds sometimes attacked
the little nun that was hanging nearest the tree.
Whereupon the nun would cut to the tree, pur-
sued by the nuthatch, round boughs, over them,
under them, round the tree, till at last the perse-
cutor finding his chase quite futile, gave it up, and
the small nun returned quietly to her feast. The
two nuthatches," he concluded, " remained about
the garden for months afterwards ; and the very
next time I went there, I saw and heard them
nearly the first thing in the morning. And didn't
they get a feast of nuts for the few days I was
there?"
Just as Bob concluded his history, Miss Spencer
came up, and the walk was accomplished to the
water- edge ; and there, with the ebbing tide lip- lip-
ping against her cutwater and bows, lay the pretty
" True Blue/' with her jaunty air and clean sides
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and decks, and snow-white sails tightly lashed to
the proper spars. The young people were all on
capital terms by this time, and lengthening out
their walk in the interest of their new acquaintance-
ship, found on their return, that they had but just
time sufficient to prepare for a becoming appear-
ance at the dinner-table.
CHAPTER XV.
Egg-Hunting and Sea-Fishing Redshank's, Common Tern's,
Oyster-Catcher's, Gull's, Ring-Dotterel's, and Reeve's Eggs
Codlings, Skate, and Grey Mullet caught.
WHEN the party were once more assembled in the
dining-room, Mr. Spencer informed the two boys
that, among the other letters with which he had
been busy when they went out into the garden,
was one with the contents of which they were in
some degree interested. It was from Bob's elder
brother. Mr. Spencer had asked him to come
over at the same time with Bob and Jack, for the
purpose of joining in an expedition which he
(Mr. Spencer) thought all would equally enjoy, and
which he had proposed to commence after two or
three days spent at Hareborough. This expedition
was nothing less than a voyage to the north, pos-
sibly as far as to Leith ; the object being to visit
Flamborough Head, St. Abb's Head, and the
Bass Rock, all of which places he knew would be
exceedingly interesting to Bob and Jack, as the
nesting-places of so many sea-birds; while the
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excitement of the sea- voyage, he thought, would
be pleasurable to the elder Benson, as well as
to the two boys. However, Edward Benson had
been unluckily engaged, and Mr. Spencer very
reluctantly had given up his plan ; and therefore
had not said anything at all about it to his young
guests, so that they might be saved the disappoint-
ment they might otherwise have felt. Most un-
expectedly, Edward Benson had written to say,
his engagement had been postponed for a month,
and he was at liberty to accept Mr. Spencer's
invitation, and most glad to do so, if it were not
too late. In the hope that it would not be so, he
should put himself into the train which reached
Dunchester at 6 '30, and hoped to be at Hare-
borough by an hour later.
" So," said Mr. Spencer, " James has gone
with bay Bessy and the dog-cart to meet him, and
soon after we have finished dinner he will be here ;
ready, I dare say, for anything we shall have
spared him."
" But, Mr. Spencer," cried Bob, hardly be-
lieving his ears, ' ' do you really mean that we are
all going in the ' True Blue' to St. Abb's Head,
and the Bass Rock? Oh, Jack, won't it be
jolly?"
"Well," replied Mr. Spencer, "that was my
plan. We shall see when your brother comes
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what modifications, if any, my proposed arrange-
ments will sustain. You know, we might go by
rail to Bridlington, via Hull, and send Tom Ling
and his boy, with an extra hand, in the 'Blue'
to meet us there, and then by sea the rest of the
distance. It might be a more agreeable mode of
procedure to the landlubbers, you know. Bob."
Bob laughingly resented this imputation on his
seamanship, and told Jack it was only his (Jack's)
inexperience of salt water, which encouraged Mr.
Spencer to sneer at them so. As for himself, to
be sure he didn't make any claim to be regarded
as a " regular old salt," but, if the sea was rather
rough, and the wind cross, he should be very
happy to act as steward, if Mr. Spencer felt him-
self at all uncomfortable.
After dinner Mr. Spencer asked the lads whether
they had thought of any desirable plan for the
morrow ; for, if they had not laid any plots with
the girls before dinner, he thought he could sug-
gest something which they would be sorry as egg-
hunters to miss.
Bob, Jack, and Tay all looked and listened in-
tently as he said this.
" Poor Tay," he went on, amused at her evident
eagerness, " it's a pity you are not a boy, for then
you might have made one. As it is, I fear your
flowing robes might be rather in the way of the
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mud, if you went to Sunken Island and expatiated
there among the oyster- catchers and redshanks."
" Papa/' said Tay, very quietly and demurely,
11 do you remember what once happened, when a
man a great grown-up man with whiskers went
with a sailor as big as himself, to shoot teukes ?"
" Hold your tongue, will you, you impertinent
little baggage."
"Well, but papa; I was only going to say,
this great, grown-up, bearded man and his tobacco-
mouthed sailor went to Sunken Island, and they
forgot to fasten their boat, and it was drifting away,
when the gentleman how old was he, Annie ?
Wasn't it forty ? happening luckily to cast his
eye that way papa, be quiet, will you." She
here interrupted herself, laughing heartily, for her
father was becoming violently demonstrative with
his wineglass and a couple of small biscuits.
Mr. Spencer now took up the tale, saying,
"It's quite true, our boat did go adrift. The
painter had worn through at the ring in the bows,
and we should have had a nice bath of it, if I had
not happened to see the boat before it had got far.
I threw my gun down, you may be sure, and swam
in after it, and so Tom and I got off safe, and the
teukes too ; for I was rather too wet to stay, even
if my powder and shot hadn't been in the same
condition."
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"If you please, papa, may I speak now,
without having a wine-glass or two thrown at
me?"
" Well, say on ; what wise thing is it, Tay '''
" Only this, papa, that, as you are only a year
or two older now, Annie and I think it would be
a good thing if we went to take care of the boat
for you to-morrow. We could see that the painter
was all right, couldn't we, Annie ?"
So, with a good deal of playful threatening on
Mr. Spencer's part, it was soon settled that the
young ladies should join the party, to the exclusion
of Tom Ling. They were to sail over to Sunken
Island and land there ; then across to Ringsbury
Saltings and Shingle Hill ; and then, if the ex-
plorers were not too wet and dirty to consist with
comfort, to sail out into the Swin, and run back
home in time for a six o'clock dinner.
The arrangement had not long been made, when
the sound of steps and voices in the hall an-
nounced an arrival, and Edward Benson was
presently announced, a good-looking young man,
with dark moustache and whiskers, made his
appearance, and was heartily welcomed. He had
dined, he said, at Wastford, where the train had
stopped twenty minutes, and would have nothing
before tea. After the other mutual inquiries,
consequent on an arrival, had been made and
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answered, Edward asked if the projected excursion
to St. Abb's still held good.
" Oh, yes/' replied Mr. Spencer, " if you have
no valid objections to urge, either on your own
part or your father's. I have free permission
from your uncle and aunt Edwards to drown your
cousin, if expedient; and I suppose my sister
wishes to make no exception to the usual fate of
youthful supernumeraries, of a certain species, in
favour of Master Bob, here."
Edward assured him he had no special injunc-
tions which savoured of hydrophobia in connexion
with his brother, and then, being informed of
the morrow's project, most willingly agreed to
make one of the party.
The morning rose fair, and everything looked
promising. Breakfast was soon despatched, and
the party proceeded to the beach ; a goodly hamper
on a wheelbarrow bringing up the rear, in charge
of James, the groom. The ladies' dresses were of
a character which showed their acquaintance with
the chances of a voyage in a pleasure-boat, and
made Edward Benson considerably happier than
he had been, when he had thought of the lots of
ooze which would probably be brought back by
the gentlemen of the party on their boots. Mr.
Spencer himself was equipped in laced boots and
close-fitting leather gaiters, and he had fitted
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Edward with a similar pair, which enclosed his
trousers from the knee downwards. The lads,
too, had a very similar garniture, except that in
their case the leathers ascended much above the
knee : James had succeeded in getting two pairs
of buskins for them at the neighbouring farm.
The " True Blue" was soon under canvas, and in
less than half-an-hour brought to off Sunken
Island, when the boat, which had been towing
astern, was brought to the side, and the whole
party, exclusive of Tom Ling and the sailor lad,
rowed to the shore. Even Annie and Tay
managed to effect a landing without any great
difficulty, the latter having ostentatiously exa-
mined the condition of the painter and seen to the
proper security of the anchor, which Mr. Spencer
carried out with his own hands.
Sunken Island was a patch of land of several
acres in extent, which at spring-tides was laid
under water, except at a few points somewhat
higher than the general level of the rest. At the
time our party visited it, the tide being on the
ebb, and almost at its lowest, it stood eight or ten
feet above the water. The surface of the island
was intersected by a great number of seeming rifts
or small channels, from three to five feet deep,
their sides all mud from top to bottom. Here
and there, these channels, which were irregular
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enough iu direction and shape, deepened until
their bottoms were low enough to allow a little
water to remain in them even at dead low water.
These were necessarily broader than the rest, and
the ooze at the bottom was very soft and slimy.
The advance of the sisters into the interior was
soon stopped by such obstacles as these, of course.
Not so that of the gentlemen, the younger of
whom were filled with eagerness by the proceed-
ings of the feathered occupants of the island. The
redshanks, or, as they were called by Mr. Spencer,
after their local nomenclature, "teukes," came
almost close up to the party immediately they
landed, and as they advanced a little, came and
sat down within a few paces, piping most plain-
tively all the time. Others kept on the wing,
flying slowly and with so to speak very mea-
sured beats of the wing, round and round, and
sometimes so close it seemed they might almost
have been touched by a suddenly outstretched
arm. Their cries were incessant; and before
many seconds had elapsed several pairs of black-
headed and common gulls, attracted by the notes
of the redshanks, joined in the turmoil, adding
unmusical screeches to the concert, and making
rapid swoops from the air almost upon the very
heads of the intruders. Half-a-minute more, and
fresh notes were heard ; a peculiar, rattling sort of
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whistle not of continuous, even tone like the red-
shank's notes, but vibrating something in the way
of the note produced by a dog-whistle with a pea
in it, but anything but discordant or unmelodious.
These cries were contributed by two or three pair
of oyster-catchers, which made their appearance
on the scene, and greatly delighted the two boys
by their graceful figures, variegated plumage, and
red legs and bill. Mr. Spencer had brought a double
opera-glass with him, and as these birds settled
on the hard mud every now and then, the visitors
were enabled to inspect them as conveniently and
accurately as if set down close before their eyes.
Four or five ring- dotterel also were seen flitting
up and down the channel between Sunken Island
and the nearest saltings, and at least one pair of
terns were sailing about in the air overhead, not
taking any very special notice of the birds' uproar
below.
The real business of the visit to the island soon
commenced. Mr. Spencer instructed the lads
where to look for the nests he thought they might
find here. He had no doubt that the redshanks,
the gulls, the oyster-catchers, and probably the
ring-dotterel possibly also a pair or two of green-
shanks, and not impossibly the terns had nests
either on the island or on the other places they
proposed to visit in the course of the morning.
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306 EGG-HUNTING AND SEA-FISHING.
They might be sure of finding redshanks', gulls',
and oyster-catchers' eggs probably several of
either within a hundred yards or so of where
they were. Let them look for the higher parts
of the island, and search there among the stunted
marine herbage ; and towards the other end of
the island, where there was an approach to a col-
lection of shingle, was perhaps the most likely
place of all, except for the redshanks. Thus in-
structed, the younger people began to search very
diligently. Bob soon found a redshank's nest
close beside a low tuft of some sea-plant, and with
a little coarse, short grass growing round the other
side of the slight cavity or depression, which was
rendered slightly nest-like by having a few blades
of dry grass laid in it. The next moment a shout
from Jack proclaimed similar success on his part ;
and as Bob was going across to see his discovery,
marking his own by a stick stuck in against it, he
stumbled upon a third. Eventually no less than
seven redshanks' nests were found, and half-a-
dozen eggs stowed away safely in the egg-box,
which was again on duty.
The next new discovery was made by Edward
Benson, and that, too, with complete absence of
intention on his part. He had been half-lying,
half-sitting, on what seemed to be the highest
part of the island, for the last quarter of an hour,
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solacing himself with a cigar ; when all at once,
almost within reach of his elbow the wonder
indeed was that his elbow had not been placed in
the exact place he perceived three oval objects,
which a second glance showed him were eggs of
some sort, reposing in what certainly served as,
but was no apology for, a nest. The eggs in ques-
tion were laid upon the bare grass, there being
scarcely a depression even sufficient to keep them
in their places. He hailed his brother, who was
at no great distance
" Here, you small boy ; come here and see if
these things are at all in your way."
Bob seeing that it could be only himself thus
hailed, crossed over to where Edward lay, and
was greatly delighted to find that the eggs he had
found were very different in shape and markings
from those himself and Jack had met with in such
abundance, and had identified as redshanks' eggs.
In almost every case, there had been found four in
each nest. Here, there were but three. Bob was
inclined at once to put them down as the common
tern's, but reserved the point for decision until he
could appeal to Tay's "Hewitson," after their return
to Hareboro'. While still contemplating the new
acquisition, he was roused by hearing a shout from
quite the other end of the island. Looking up, he
exclaimed, " How could they have got there?"
808 EGG-HUNTING AND SEA-FISHING.
" How could who have got where?" lazily ejacu-
lated the young man, as he lay on his back,
watching the curls of smoke as they ascended from
his cigar.
" Why, Mr. Spencer and the girls/' said Bob.
The fact was, Mr. Spencer seeing his three
companions all apparently engaged in quest of
eggs, had gone back to the boat, and re-embark-
ing with his daughters, had rowed them round to
the other extremity of the island, where they had
landed ; and, judging by their actions, had met
with something which wonderfully excited their
interest. For Mr. Spencer was shouting, Tay
was dancing and whirling her parasol in the air,
and even Miss Spencer was waving her hand.
The two boys speedily rushed off full speed in the
direction of the trio who were summoning them,
Edward following them much more leisurely.
Their course was soon stopped by a wider channel
or creek than usual; and they had to diverge
considerably from the direct line before they could
succeed in finding a place at which it was possible
to cross. Succeeding, at last, they were not long
in reaching Mr. Spencer and his daughters. The
younger of the two ladies called out as they came
within convenient speaking distance,
c ' Oh ! Eobert, do look here. Such good for-
tune. Annie has found an oyster-catcher's nest
Ned finding the Red-shank's Nest. p. 308
COMMON TERN'S NEST. 809
already, with three eggs in it, of a warm cream-
coloured ground, and dark blotches and streaks, all
lying with a sort of garnish of whitish pebbles and
pieces of shells under and around them; the
smaller shingle surrounding the whole."
There could be little doubt what they were,
especially as the oyster- catchers themselves were
seen flying around the party with such evident
solicitude. Their shrill whistle was now quite
noisy, and as four or five continued their circuits,
sometimes passing very near and then settling on
the mud at no great distance for a few seconds, or
until a sudden movement of one or other of the
visitors set them in motion again with a repetition
of their piercing note, Bob felt sure there was
at least one more nest very near them. Very
brief search showed that he was right, for another
nest was discovered, and within two paces of that
a third, one of them with three eggs the cus-
tomary number the other with two, in it. Fur-
ther researches disclosed nothing more, though
the pertinacious swooping of two gulls gave good
ground for believing that they had a nest at no
great distance.
The whole party now returned to the boat, and
Edward Benson seemed desirous to atone in a
measure for his previous indolence by taking an
oar and pulling steadily and in very good style,
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Mr. Spencer having the other, until they reached
the " True Blue." Once more aboard, they
sailed before the wind until they fetched Shingle
Point. Rounding this, they proceeded about half a
mile up the estuary, and lay to off " a hard" which
gave access to the Bingsbury saltings and marshes.
The saltings were, as to surface, much what Sunken
Island had proved, except that the rills or lesser
channels formed a more extensive but irregular
reticulation ; and every here and there, a sort of
creek or larger channel, like an artery in the body,
served to convey the sea-water from the main
channel into the interior of the saltings. Some of
these creeks were too deep in water and mud to be
crossed at all, except at some distance from their
departure from the main creek ; and others again
were considerably less. The boys, under Mr. Spen-
cer's guidance, spent half an hour or more on these
saltings, and found three or four more redshanks'
nests, and one oyster- catcher's. Availing them-
selves of the boat once more, they returned to the
" Blue," to see if the remainder of the party were
inclined to join them in the exploration of Shingle
Hill. All seemed willing, and Tay delighted, to
do so ; and putting off again they rowed across the
mouth of the Bingsbury creek, and were speedily
landed on the hill. Here for a space of 600 or
700 yards a tapering point of land ran out into
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the sea between Bingsbury creek on one side and
the Hareboro' and Freshcot creeks (which were
united a little above) on the other. At the farther
extremity, this spit presented nothing to the eye
it was visible only at low water but hard mud.
Higher up, however, a very considerable accumu-
lation of shingle, chiefly consisting of shells and
chalk in a state of fine comminution, was to be
seen. Larger fragments of shells and lumps of
chalk were observable about in considerable
quantity, though relatively to the whole deposit
it was small enough. Not being very easy of
access from the land side, and presenting no
great attractions to any one except a lover of birds,
it was not often visited ; and in consequence, con-
siderable numbers of such of the shore birds of the
district as usually resorted to such places for nest-
ing purposes, were now to be met with about it.
Three or four oyster-catchers' nests were speedily
discovered. Then Mr. Spencer hit upon a gull's
nest, and a moment after Jack upon another, each
with three eggs in. But the crowning find of the
day fell to the lot of Tay and Bob. They had
rambled off to a little distance from their com-
panions, when, in a little hole on the surface of
the highest part of the accumulation of small
shingle, Bob's quick eye detected four beautiful
black-spotted cream-coloured eggs, which from
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their size and general appearance, he believed
could be none other than the ring-dotterel's ; and
while Tay, who had just seated herself on a small
green hillock, like an ant-hill in shape and size, a
few paces above the termination of the shingle
deposit, was leisurely admiring them, he turned
away to see if he could not find another nest or
two of the same eggs ; as several of the dotterel
were flying in circuits around him, uttering their
sweet plaintive note of alarm the while. A sud-
den exclamation of delighted surprise from Tay
recalled him speedily to her side.
" Oh ! Robert, do look," she cried as he came
up. ' ' I was putting your eggs away so carefully,
till you had time to pack them, on that little hil-
lock ; and see what I had almost put my hand
upon before I noticed them ! Whatever can they
be?"
Bob's surprise and delight were quite equal to
her own, when he saw, amidst some coarse grass,
in a hollow lined with pieces of the same, four
eggs of an olive colour, blotched and spotted
with what on a dog would have been called liver
colour. It was apparent to Tay's eye even, that
they were quite different from all they had seen
before in the course of the morning ; and the two
companions were still deep in conjecture and ad-
miration, when Jack strolled up to them, and
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asking them what they were so confidential about,
the moment after abruptly stopped Bob's account
of their luck, and their conjectures and doubts, by
a low but very emphatic
"Bob! Bob! I say, look! What can that
queer bird be ?"
Bob thus adjured, turned round, and looking
in the direction of Jack's extended finger, re-
cognised the bird at once, by the extraordinary
feather appendage of its neck, as a ruff. His
shout of pleasure at the recognition alike of the
bird and the probable origin of the eggs he held
in his hand, instantly warned the ruff to decamp ;
which indeed he lost no time in doing, having a
few words at parting addressed to him by Bob, as
follows :
" Ah ! old fellow, I should like to be down here
to-morrow morning at daybreak, and see you pitch
into your neighbours if you have any. Tay, did
you ever hear your papa say that ruffs and reeves
were found here ?"
After a moment's recollection she replied,
" I think I do recollect, two or three years ago,
papa came here in consequence of a message he
got from an old fisherman, and came back with
several ruffs and reeves. But I never heard of
their laying eggs here before."
The three young people now directed their steps
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to where Mr. Spencer and his daughter were seen
talking with Edward Benson, and on reaching
them proceeded in a sort of chorus to describe
to Mr. Spencer their last great discovery. He
wouldn't believe it possible; though he con-
fessed his recollection of getting five or six out of
a flock of birds, some of which had, as his in-
formant had told him, "muffs of feathers round
their necks," and which he recognised as ruffs from
the description. Bob's description of the bird
Jack had espied rather shook his unbelief, but it
was not until he had gone himself to the place
where the nest had been found, and seen for
himself the veritable ruff which had again re-
ascended his hill by this time that he was willing
to admit that after all there might be a reeve's
nest there.
Their spoils all safely stowed away, they now
lost no time in returning to the "True Blue,"
and getting under way once more, on a wind. The
wind had rather freshened, and there was a nice
working breeze, but no sea at all. In three words,
it was the very day for the most purely fresh- water
sailor to have selected on purpose to enjoy a sail.
The ripple dancing and glancing in the sun, the
white foam from the cutwater tailing off on each
side the wake like streams of small pearls glowing
with light, the rapid but steady motion of the
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vessel, the freshness of the wind and the waves
all combined to make the sensations of the whole
party purely, deliciously pleasurable. Four out
of the six were quite silent from the depth of their
enjoyment ; and it was not until Mr. Spencer and
Edward Ned, as Bob irreverently called him, in
spite of his moustache had proceeded to the un-
packing of the hamper, that the juniors of the
party found time to recollect that the fresh sea
air, and the exercise and the excitement of the
morning, had given them gigantic appetites.
Pigeon-pie, and cold roast fowl and tongue, and
cool salad, and foaming perry rapidly disappeared,
and Ned obtained permission to light another
cigar on condition that he placed himself on the
leeward side of the boat, and remained there as
long as he continued to smoke. Handing over
the debris of the repast to Tom Ling and the lad,
it was resolved to go about as soon as those
worthies had finished their repast, and to work up
to the edge of the Gunfleet flats ; and, lying-to
there, to take to the small boat again and spend
an hour or two with the sprule ; Ling having by
Mr. Spencer's orders taken the precaution to pro-
vide, before starting, a sufficient supply of "log,"
or the worms found in the sea-sand, for the
purpose. In a quarter of an hour, the active
craft was rattling along on the return voyage,
316 EGG-HUNTING AND SEA-FISHING.
making, as Mr. Spencer estimated, about eight
knots.
The Gunfleet was reached in good time, and as
nearly as might be at about half-flood, the small
boat was anchored, and the lines put in a state of
readiness for use. Bob and Tay were in the stern,
Jack and Miss Spencer one on each side, and Mr.
Spencer in the bows ; the boy making himself
useful, wherever required, with the baits and
hooks. Edward Benson preferred remaining on
board the ' ' Blue" to smoke another " weed." The
fish which Mr. Spencer expected to take were
codling at all events, principally codling run-
ning from five or six to nine or ten inches long.
At first, no one had even a bite. Bob soon appro-
priated the new idea, on which this (to him) new
style of fishing depended; and, after one or two
haulings in of his sprule on false alarms, at last
actually brought a crab, with a body as big as
the palm of his hand, to the surface. A quarter
of an hour passed, and no fish was caught. Mr.
Spencer thought it would be expedient to shift their
ground a little, and was actually beginning to haul
in upon the painter to raise the anchor, when a
quick " I've got one," from Tay, followed on the
instant by a " So have I," from Bob, caused him
to let go again. Tay's fish was a very good one ;
and she had just lifted it on board, when Bob fol-
CODLINGS CAUGHT. 317
lowed suit by hauling in a couple, one on each
hook of his sprule. The sprule, it should be said,
was a conical weight formed with about 21bs.
of lead, with two pieces of whalebone, a foot long,
inserted near its base or thicker end, at right
angles to each other ; and from the extremities of
these hung foot-lines fifteen or eighteen inches
long terminating in a strong tinned hook. To re-
lease the struggling captives, and chuck them into
a basket brought for the purpose, and re-bait Tay's
hooks and his own did not take Bob long ; nor
was it long before he had again to repeat the pro-
cess ; three more codlings being thrown into the
basket, namely, two from Tay's line, and one from
his own. And now the remaining members of the
party began to be successful, and in the course of
the next fifteen or twenty minutes, a score and
half of beautiful fish were taken. Ned having
been a silent witness for some minutes of the
activity and success which characterized the pro-
ceedings of the boat's crew, now hailed them with
a request to be allowed to join them : a request
which was replied to by Bob with the Freemason's
sign, and e ' Don't you wish you may get it ?" by
Tay, with a low-toned inquiry to Bob as to whether
sea fish would be likely to take " a weed," as well
as a bait : to which he replied he supposed the
pipe fish probably would, but not codling. The
318 EGG-HUNTING AND SEA-FISHING.
first variation in the performances was by Jack,
who succeeded in catching a very nice eel of about
half a pound ; and presently after, Annie hauled
up a red gurnard, and Tay a small flounder. After
this, codlings again became the order of the day,
and by the end of an hour the basket was half
filled. A considerable commotion in the bow of
the boat presently arrested the attention of all the
crew.
" Oh ! papa, what is the matter ?" exclaimed
Annie, as she saw him bending over the bows,
with his knees set firmly against the bow-board,
and employing vastly more effort than if hauling
up the anchor.
"Oh! nothing very particular," he replied;
" I have only got hold of an infant Levi-athan, as
J ohn Balls says on Sunday ; or some such inno-
cent. Stand by, Tim, and hold the line : belay
it on that thole, if you can't hold it without, as
soon as I get this chap to the top."
The creature, whatever it was, made great
efforts, but still such as not to betoken the pos-
session of much activity, and after a short struggle
at the surface of the water, Mr. Spencer succeeded
in lifting into the boat a great, irregular shaped
flat fish, with a white belly, a dusky brown back,
and a long slender tail unevenly lobed near the
end. It was a skate, and was estimated by its
SKATES. 319
captor as weighing not less than 501b. So great
was the general interest in this monster, that fish-
ing was suspended, except by Tim the sailor lad,
who had re-baited Mr. Spencer's hooks, and re-
turned them to the sea. A shout from him
diverted attention from the skate to the difficulty
with which it was apparent he held his own against
the struggles of some other marine monster, which
he had succeeded in hooking. After similar
efforts, and with similar precautions to those in
the former case, Mr. Spencer lifted a second skate
into the boat scarcely inferior to the one first taken,
an event which Bob and Jack celebrated by giving
three good hearty cheers, in which they were greatly
assisted by Tim, who evidently thought he was
not the least hero of the day. Satisfied with their
success on counting, it turned out that their
basket contained sixty-seven codling, besides a
few gurnards and two or three flounders they
returned to the " Blue/' and getting under way
again, steered direct for Hareboro' Hard, not
without a sly joke or two at the lazy smoker's
expense, who had vainly longed to share in the
sport he had affected to despise. They landed
soon after four, and were walking slowly up to Mr.
Spencer's house, when Tim was observed by Jack
to be coming after them with all the speed allowed
by the heavy fisherman's boots he was wearing.
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" What's the matter, Tim ?" cried Mr. Spencer,
as he came within speaking distance.
" Please, sir, Mussett's just told father, that
Longsea West Sand was half alive with mullet last
night, and he thinks if you could find time to run
down there in the ' Blue/ about seven or eight
o'clock, with the big net, you might, mayhap,
get a score or two. He'd be glad to lend a hand,
and would pull over in his own boat, which, he
says, suits better for shooting the net than ours."
" What say you, lads, and you, Ned A hasty
dinner, and a rush after the mullets ? or, a com-
fortable meal, and resting content with the cod-
lings we've caught ?"
Without a dissentient vote, the decision was
for mullet-fishing. Bob didn't " want any din-
ner at all," he said : to the truth of which assertion
his brother said he did not the least demur ; he
thought after the lunch he had seen Bob dispose
of the fact must be indisputable. The latter
was too much interested in the decision to heed
the insinuation ; and it was arranged that Annie
and her sister should go on and have dinner
made ready as soon as possible, while the gentle-
men returned to the Hard and settled with
Tom Ling and Mussett the order of proceedings
for the evening.
A quarter-past five saw the party seated at the
SHOOTING THE NET. 321
dinner-table, and it must be confessed Bob
doing as much justice to the viands as if he had
not lunched tolerably well ; a fact he accounted
for, when his brother told him he wondered what
he did with so much food, by saying that he
didn't make himself poorly by drying his salad,
calling it " a weed/' and smoking it, and all to
look like a man. At half-past six, they were all
the ladies excepted aboard the " Blue," and
by seven had sailed round to the West Sand. At
some little distance from the part in which the
mullet were seen to be, they appeared to be rising
much as a trout or salmon does, though it was
very doubtful indeed if they " rose to a fly/' lay
Mussett's boat with himself and Tim in it. The
net was soon transferred to its stern sheets and
properly arranged for shooting. Mussett attended
to the important work of letting it out into the
water or " shooting " it, while Tom Ling pulled
very steadily, in such a way that the corks on the
" top line " of the net described a regular curve
with the concavity towards the shore, and at no great
distance from it. As great stillness and gentle-
ness was observed during this process, as consisted
with giving the boat the requisite motion. When
it was completed, the boat was pulled rapidly
within the net and as much splashing made with
the oars, boat-hook, &c., as could very well be
it
322 EGG-HUNTING AND SEA-PISHING.
contrived ; and the bobbing floats, in half a score
different places, showed that fish had struck the
net in no scanty numbers. Some leaped right
over the net, but not a few remained securely
entangled in its meshes. The next step was to
work it into the boat again, which was not done
without the expenditure of both skill and pains-
taking ; and the result was no less than seventeen
grey mullet, of from one and a half to four or five
pounds weight each. A second shot of the net,
about a quarter of a mile further on, produced
eleven more ; and contented with this great suc-
cess, and tolerably well tired with the exertions
and the excitements of the day, the whole party
returned to the " Blue," and home, without any
unnecessary delay.
CHAPTER XVI.
Afloat Bridlington Bay Flamborough Eockbirds and their
Eggs Berwick Bay Eyemouth The Fort Asplenium
Marinum The Gunsgreen Eocks.
THE next day was employed by Tom Ling and the
lad in making every preparation for the somewhat
lengthened voyage in contemplation. Every part
of the rigging was overhauled, and everything
looked to and stowed away in its proper place.
Mr. Spencer himself superintended in chief, and
appeared to enjoy the anticipations of the trip
almost as much as our younger friends. They,
with Mr. Ned, had no finger in this pie of pre-
paration, for the event of the day was a much
talked-of cricket match, to come off at Alechurch
Park, between the Dunchester and Long Fenton
elevens ; and Mr. Spencer had placed his ponies
at their disposal, if they chose to drive over and
witness it. Accordingly between ten and eleven
Ned had assumed the reins, and in due time they
reached the village inn, from which they walked
on into the Park. As they came in sight of the
324 AFLOAT.
ground marked off for the players, they saw a
considerable number of people assembled already.
Making their way among the groups they soon
obtained a good position for seeing the play. They
had just ascertained from one of the bystanders
that Duncnester was in, and making a heavy
innings, when one of the players with a slashing
hit drove the ball quite beyond the line of specta-
tors, very near themselves, making all give way
to let it and the fielder have free passage.
" By Jove ! Jack," cried Bob, intently regard-
ing the striker, " that's old Pettit. I thought to
myself as I saw him swipe that ball, it was as like
him as ever it could be ; and now he's sitting on
his bat that way, I'm sure it's nobody else."
Pettit it was, sure enough ; for when he carried
his bat out at the close of the innings, with a score
of over fifty, both lads hurried up to him, and a
hearty salutation from the big fellow greeted his
young cricket protege, and a kindly nod and grasp
of the hand was accorded to Jack. He was stay-
ing at old Gregory's, he said, who lived five miles
the other side of Dunchester ; and one of Gregory's
cousins was in the Dunchester eleven and had got
lamed, and as he and Gregory had both joined the
Dunchester club the holidays before last, he had
been put in to fill Tom Gregory's place. " And
I think I've done none so worser," he concluded,
" TALLOWFACE" AGAIN. 325
" and old Elmdon needn't be ashamed of us so far ;
eh, Bob?"
" Why you've got the old bat in play again/'
said Bob, after taking it out of Pettit's hand.
"Oh, yes; and isn't it a sender? I couldn't
help thinking of you and old Tallowchops, when
I made that six out yonder. D'ye know what's
happened to him, Bob ?"
Bob didn't ; he had neither heard of him or
thought of him since his departure from Elmdon.
" Well," said Pettit, " his uncle was so dis-
gusted when he heard of that bit of business, that
he wouldn't take him into his office as he had in-
tended ; and the night after he had told him so,
Tallowface's bed wasn't slept in, and the next
morning Tallowface wasn't to be found. But two
days after, a letter came with the London post-
mark on it, to say by the time his uncle got that,
he should be two days' sail on his voyage to Aus-
tralia. He had plenty of tin, always, you know ;
and you recollect he boasted he could show us a
fifty-pound note one day a legacy his aunt had
left him. ' Once in Australia, he would try and
make his own way,' he said ; and in the postscript,
' If you hear of me again, it shall not be to be
ashamed of me/ Well, I wasn't quite just to him ;
for I didn't think he had goodness enough to be
ashamed of himself, or manliness enough to make
326 AFLOAT.
up his mind and try the honest dodge ; for I sup-
pose his P.S. means that. But I must go : I wish
I could depend on some of these big 'uns as I can
upon you, little 'un."
And so saying he shook hands with Bob again,
and went to take his place in the field.
The trio stayed to see the result of the innings of
the Long Fenton people, which was such that Dun-
chester resolved to put them in again, thinking their
own score sufficient to warrant the expectation that
they might win in one innings : as indeed it hap-
pened. They did not see anything more of Pettit,
though Ned rather wished to see him and make
his acquaintance, and thank him for the interest
he showed in Bob. On their return to Hare-
borough, they found all preparations nearly com-
plete, and nothing for them to do except wish for
a fair wind in the morning. The evening was
given to blowing and drying, and otherwise caring
for, yesterday's acquisitions in eggs ; besides
mounting such of them as were required for
Tay's cabinet. That young lady was quite in-
consolable at not being able to join the expe-
dition, and hoped that an express might come from
Tim's doctor, to say that that young gentleman
was in such a delicate state of health, as to render
a sea-voyage entirely unadvisable ; in which case,
she said, she should at once go to Skipper Spencer
THE VOYAGE BEGUN. 327
and ship for the voyage ; and she would bribe the
doctor, if she could only find him. However,
either Tim's health or his doctor's integrity was
unimpeachable, and at six o'clock the following
morning the True Blue got under way with a
flowing sheet, and soon rounding Longsea Ness,
was at once out of sight of Hareborough. Walton,
the mouth of the Orwell, Aldborough, Yarmouth
Roads, were all passed in succession. The
numerous coasters of all sorts, with occasional
flotillas of fishing-boats ; then a couple of coal-
steamers, or a Scotch boat, with her three masts
and long trail of smoke ; kept up an unflagging
interest in the minds of both boys. Sometimes,
too, they sailed in upon a convoy of porpoises,
disturbing their unwieldy gambols for the time.
Gulls, with an occasional pair or two of terns,
and, now and then, when nearer the coast than
usual, a few shore birds flitting over the waves,
added to the objects of interest for Bob and his
cousin. Ned took an occasional shot at some
careless gull, and smoked several " weeds," and at
last fairly laid down to sleep. Mr. Spencer read,
or talked to the boys, pointing out to them the
various places they passed, adding any interesting
particulars he happened to know about them.
Thus, and with the agreeable variations of lunch,
and dinner, and coffee, the day passed ; and when
328 AFLOAT.
the evening grew dusk they were well up on the
Lincolnshire coast. No one was poorly in the
least, though Jack looked a little pale once, about
an hour after dinner. They turned in about ten,
and the lads never woke till nearly six the next
morning, when they found themselves safely at
anchor in Bridlington Bay, where they had arrived
two or three hours before. Breakfasting on board
about eight, they landed soon after, and looked at
Burlington Quay, and thence went to Old Brid-
lington, paying a visit to the noble remains of
the old priory church. Mr. Spencer, in passing
through the town, made some inquiries about
rockbirds' eggs, and was directed to a person
living in a side street, who would be sure to have
a stock on hand, and would be as likely as any one
to show him where and how they were taken.
On reaching this person's house, Bob and his
cousin were in ecstasies at the scores of eggs spread
before them : guillemots, or willocks as they are
locally called had contributed an endless variety
of beautifully shaped and marked eggs, totally dis-
similar in colour and markings ; puffins 5 and razor-
bills' eggs, also, were very numerous, the latter in
almost as many varieties of markings and shades
as the willocks', only lacking the bright blue which
characterized so many of those ; and smaller and
shorter in proportion to their length, and more
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rounded at the smaller end. Besides these, were
cormorants' and shags' eggs, not a few ; kittiwakes'
eggs in numbers, while besides, in a private case,
were seen a few jackdaws', rock-pigeons', and star-
lings' eggs, with two peregrine falcon's, all taken
from some part or other of the rocks between
Filey and Flamborough. By the advice of Mr.
Spencer, Bob and Jack selected some sixty or
seventy willocks' eggs, two and two of like colours
and markings ; a smaller number of razor-bills',
proceeding on the same principle; besides cor-
morants', shags', puffins', and kittiwakes' eggs,
four of each; in other words, sufficient for
Tay's collection, as well as their own. Arrange-
ments were then made to proceed at once to the
rocks, that the boys might see the birds them-
selves, and the mode of taking their eggs practised
by the climbers.
No difficulty was experienced in obtaining con-
veyance to Flamborough, and by the time our
party had arrived at the appointed place, some
distance beyond the lighthouse, a party of three
men had made their preparations for descending
the face of the cliff and plundering the eggs laid
since their last visit. It was late in the season,
they said, but still there were enough eggs to
reward a descent. An iron bar was driven into
the ground, and to this a strong rope was fixed.
330 AFLOAT.
Another rope was provided, and made fast to a
sort of hempen waistband, with loops depending,
through which the thighs were passed, so as to
take the whole weight of the climber's body.
This rope was held by the men above, while the
climber as he descended retained hold of that
which was made fast to the iron bar ; and in this
way he was enabled to pass along from rock to
rock, or from one ledge to another, picking up the
eggs as he passed, and depositing them in bags
slung from his shoulders for the purpose. The
kittiwakes' eggs were usually found on the lower
ledges, and those of some of the puffins in holes
and recesses nearer the top ; the guillemots, and
razor-bills, and other puffins occupying the inter-
mediate spaces in common. Bob obtained, with
some difficulty, Mr. Spencer's consent to his
making a trial for himself, and was lowered down
at a point rather further on, and where the birds
had not yet .been disturbed. He seemed to feel
no uneasiness at all at the prospect of hanging
over the cliff ; his concern was how to stow any
eggs he might reach without breaking them.
Jack, with a broad grin on his face, and remem-
bering Bob's unceremonious " What's the use of
your mouth ?" to himself at the jay's nest, quietly
suggested that he should put them in that natural
cavity, offering him a willock's egg just put into
Bob over the Cliff after the Sea birds' Eggs. p. 330
BOB A " CLIMBER." ,331
his hand by the climber " to take measure by," as
he said ; which civility Bob returned by asking for
the loan of his friend's braincase, which he had
some reason to suppose might be empty, or at all
events not in use at present. Bob's delight, as
the unpleasantness of the new sensation of hang-
ing over the dashing sea at the foot of the deep
precipice wore off, was very great; particularly
when he found himself within reach of seven or
eight eggs, which he managed to deposit in his
inverted cap, suspended within his handkerchief
from his neck. Before he returned to the top he
managed to take nine willocks' eggs, five kitti-
wakes', and four puffins', which he thought were
all that were within reach without being lowered
down a good deal further. The climber smiled,
and going down to just the same level as Bob had
been, returned with some fifty eggs, which he had
obtained by shifting from side to side and reaching
into clefts which Bob had either not seen, or not
thought it possible to reach.
Leaving the climbers, Mr. Spencer and the
youths walked on further, and were not a little
disgusted at the cruelty disguised with the lying
name of " Sport" which they saw practised by
several parties of shooters. Scores of birds were
shot for no purpose whatever from each of the
boats containing a party; not one in fifty was
332 AFLOAT.
picked up, and numbers of wounded and mutilated
birds were left to perish in agony, perhaps in pro-
tracted agony. Rook-shooting, as usually con-
ducted, is bad enough ; but the wholesale and un-
mitigated cruelty of rockbird shooting is simply
inhuman and detestable. Vast quantities of kitti-
wakes seemed to have colonized some parts of the
rocks, virtually to the exclusion of other birds ;
and in other places the willocks, and puffins, and
razor-bills predominated. Mr. Spencer had ascer-
tained that the cormorants and shags principally
frequented the rocks about Buckton and Bempton,
and walked on thither to see the birds, though
they could not hope to see the nests and eggs. In
doing this they rather diverged to see more of the
northern extremity of the Danes' Dyke. Mr.
Spencer was quite unable to satisfy Jack's curio-
sityabout this very remarkable feature of antiquity.
He could only say it was believed to be a fortifica-
tion thrown up by the Danes, to render their occu-
pation of the promontory of Flamborough more
secure ; but that it was also not the least impos-
sible that, if the truth could be reached, it might
prove to be more ancient than theDanes themselves.
He added that several interesting fossils were met
with in the chalk along the line of the dyke, but
he feared, if they wished to proceed to Buckton
Cliff, they must not waste time in either anti-
CORMORANTS' NESTS. 333
quarian or palaeontological researches. Arrived
at Buckton, as luck would have it, a distinguished
naturalist was there with a party of rock-climbers,
on purpose to ascertain whether the cormorants
had, or had not, as yet proceeded to commence
the labours of nidification. It was ascertained
that there were eggs, though not one-fifth of what
there would be two or three weeks later, the
climber said. Pleased with Bob's intelligence and
enthusiasm in his own pursuits, and liking his
fearlessness, the naturalist, who had been down
himself for some time, permitted him to descend
and look into a nest so situated that he could not
miss it. Poor Bob's nose came to grief sadly ;
for the nest in fact the face of the cliff also, but
particularly the nesting ledges stank like 500
kingfishers' nests all conglomerated in one. How-
ever he got a couple of cormorant's eggs of his own
taking, and was inconceivably delighted with the
new experiences of the day. Turning their faces
homewards, after a brisk walk they reached the
point at which they had left their conveyance, and
in due time found themselves at the Quay, and
doing full justice to a very satisfactory dinner,
which Mr. Spencer had ordered in the morning at
the hotel. At nine o'clock they returned on
board, and soon turned in and slept soundly till
five the following morning.
334 AFLOAT.
Soon after that hour, they were once more
under weigh, with the wind still as favourable as
possible, and their craft slipping along at the rate
of nine knots in the hour. There was a little
swell, but no sea, and nobody seemed to be any
the worse. The beautiful bay of Filey was
reached, and then defiant Filey Brig, with a little
surf at its extremity, was passed, and they came
full in sight of Scarborough. Ned was very well
disposed for landing at this watering-place, and
staying a day or two there ; but not so the lads,
nor Mr. Spencer, who wished to have all the fine
weather for sailing. So Scarborough Castle was
left behind them, and Whitby Abbey soon after
rose into view. Whitby was passed, and the high
rocky coast about Runswick and Boulby; the
Tees' mouth crossed; Hartlepool sighted; and,
before dinner was over, Coquet Island was in
sight. There was just light enough to see Barn-
borough Castle and the Fame Islands as they
passed; but all were asleep, except Mr. Spencer
and Tom Ling, as they sailed along by Holy
Island; and they too turned in, less than two
hours later, when all was made snug after reach-
ing Berwick harbour. They had put in here
because Mr. Spencer had some idea that their
best plan might be to go on by rail to Ayton or
Reston, and thence across the country to Colding-
BE II \VICK-ON-T WEED. 335
ham and St. Abb's Head; taking a boat from
Coldingham harbour to wait upon them at the
Head, and give them the opportunity of passing
under the stupendous rocks which form the pro-
montory called after that Saxon saint. Oddly
enough, the first person Mr. Spencer stumbled
against as he passed through the old sallyport,
which admits from the harbour into the town at
Berwick, was a Capt. St. John, whom he had long
known, and often sailed with in his former yacht-
ing days. By his recommendation, after a cur-
sory inspection of the old town, more interesting
in its historical associations than in any other
way, he decided to up anchor and sail on to
the little harbour of Eyemouth, which was actually
in sight of St. Abb's Head ; and make that their
head-quarters until they had seen all they wanted
to see in the neighbourhood ; and then to take the
" Blue" on to the Bass, and either sail to Leith,
or back, as might be most expedient at the time.
Accordingly, about eleven, the "Blue" dropped
down with the tide, and, with all her canvas spread,
crept slowly on with the breeze, which had now
become very light indeed. Once or twice it almost
entirely failed them; but about half-past one,
when tide was beginning to make, a breeze, still
light, but steady, made itself felt, and Burnmouth
was reached and passed ; and half an hour or so
336 AFLOAT.
later Guns-green Point was rounded, and the
" Blue " dropped her anchor in the little sheltered
bay of Eyemouth. The lads had been in ecstasies
with the rock scenery opening from time to time
before them, and when the majestic coast from
a little north of Eyemouth to St. Abb's, lay
fairly within view, and no part of it more than
three miles distant, great was their admiration
and eagerly expressed their anticipations of the
morrow's explorings and discoveries. It was
agreed by all, that if they could succeed in obtain-
ing comfortable lodgings, they would prefer bed-
rooms and beds to a cabin and lockers ; and so
the first thing to be done, was to go and search
for rooms. Fortunately enough, a tolerably com-
modious house near the west side of the bay,
which could boast of three bed-rooms and a com-
fortable sitting-room available as lodgings, was at
present without a single inmate, except those
belonging to the tenant's family ; and an arrange-
ment was soon come to, in virtue of which Tom
Ling and Tim were speedily engaged in transfer-
ring a boatload of carpet-bags and other similar
indispensables, from the cabin of the "True Blue"
to Mrs. Alexander's bed-chambers. Mutton and
whiting were procurable, the latter in any quantity.
No herrings had yet been caught, though prepara-
tions for the fishery were evident in more than
CAVES IN THE SEA-CLIFF. 337
one direction. Having provided against hunger,
by ordering sundry whitings and a sufficiency of
mutton to be ready by six o'clock, all went out to
explore. Their landlady would fain have sent
them to look at a suspension-bridge over the Eye,
which gave admission to the grounds of a mansion
close by the little town ; but our travellers seemed
to think that if it had been ' a grandfather ' of
Tension bridges, they could exist without seeing
it. Jack rather inclined, on hearing there were
divers cellars and vaults under Guns -green House,
devised and formerly used for smuggling purposes,
to go and examine them. Mr. Spencer, however,
suggested a look at a rock, said to contain
nodules of green copper ore, and then to look at
1 ' the Protector's fort," on the top of it ; after
which, a ramble of a little more than half a mile
along the shore would bring them if he might
trust the " Statistical Account of Berwickshire,"
which his friend at Berwick had lent him to a
cavern, interesting as a residence of rock pigeons
and a habitat of the sea-spleenwort. The same
authority, he said, stated there were caves in the
rocks in the other direction also that is, in those
rocks they had passed in their voyage from Ber-
wick ; that tradition reported one of these to be
of very considerable length, and indeed, to com-
municate with a hamlet lying a considerable dis-
z
838 AFLOAT.
tance inland ; but the exploration of any of these
was a matter of difficulty and some danger, and
could only be attempted at a particular time of
tide, and in the most settled weather. A sudden
swell rising might cause the destruction of the
whole party of explorers, from the loss or damage
of their boat. So the mineralogical, antiquarian
and botanical quests were resolved on ; and four or
five nodules of earthy copper-ore were picked out
of a friable rock of no great extent, and scarcely
150 yards from their lodgings ; and then the
mounds and embankments called the fort, were
visited. Tradition was clear on the subject, and
certainly more trustworthy than that which origi-
nated the name of Oliver's Mount for the high
ground overlooking Scarbro', which Mr. Spencer
had pointed out as they sailed by that place ; for
beyond all doubt, Eyemouth Fort did take its
origin from the Protector, Somerset. A pleasant
walk along the sea braes brought them to a steep
road leading down to the beach, and after a little
investigation, in both directions, along the narrow
strip of sand and shingle between the foot of the
rocks and the sea, they succeeded in finding the
veritable cavern spoken of in the " Statistical
Account." It was, perhaps, eighteen or twenty
feet deep, and appeared to have a connexion witli
an interior one ; though it was impossible to do
ASPLENIUM MARINUM. 339
more than suspect the existence of such a con-
tinuation. The Fern they expected to find, grew
there conspicuously enough, but at a height of
fully ten feet from the sandy floor of the cave.
How to get at it was the question, which Bob
solved by asking Mr. Spencer to lend him his
stick a sort of light alpenstock, usually carried
by him on such occasions as the present ; and
producing his old sailor's knife, he lashed it with
all a sailor's dexterity, to the end of the staff; and
then, with open blade, proceeded to sever five or
six of the largest and best fronds he could select.
The pigeons were a myth, that was immediately
clear ; but they cared little for that, as they knew
there would be no lack of them to-morrow, in the
caves at the foot of St. Abb's. Lengthening their
walk a little further in the same direction, they
came to a small bay which looked so sequestered,
and showed such deliciously clean sands with flat
rocks lying about, and spread out an expanse of
such marvellously clear and inviting-looking water
beneath their eyes, that the desire of bathing in-
stantly came upon three out of four of the party ;
and the two lads, regardless of the lack of towels,
were soon enjoying all the pleasures and luxuries
of a thorough good bathe. A scamper over the
soft smooth sand dried their bodies ; and carrying
their caps in their hands, their short hair dried
340 AFLOAT.
quite satisfactorily in the pleasant afternoon sun-
shine, as they returned homewards. The whitings
were just caught, the mutton- cutlets undeniable,
the whiskey excellent, the Scotch ale unmistake-
able, and the gooseberry tart a stunner. After
most ample justice had been done to the banquet,
Bob proposed that they should get Tom Ling te
put them across the Eye in the boat, and that
they should ramble along the Guns-green rocks.
Ned himself seemed to think the suggestion a
good one ; and in ten minutes they were proceed-
ing along the verge of the graywacke rocks,
which go on ascending in height from a little
above the level of the water at Eyemouth, to 300
or 400 feet high, a mile or two to the south.
Wonderful chasms and minute bays, almost holes,
presented themselves from time to time ; and
standing on a sort of mimic promontory, they
caught the outlines of a cavity opening in at the
foot of the cliff, at one place a little distance
beyond them. The irregular archway looked
twenty or twenty-five feet high, by as much broad,
and as they stood nearly over it a few minutes
afterwards, the little swell there was, as it broke
on the rocks and dashed into the cavern, seemed
to be the cause of a vague melodious sound, which
struck on their ears from time to time. Meeting
a countryman not far from the place, they learned
THE CAVEEN. 341
from him that it was the mouth of the cave which
was reputed to penetrate so far inland ; and he
added, that about sixteen or eighteen years ago,
two gentlemen, staying at Eyemouth, had at-
tempted to penetrate its mysteries ; that they had
gone with their own boat, and a seaman or two,
taking care to be well supplied with wax candles
that they had succeeded in reaching a point at
some distance from the mouth, finding it a black
awful cavern of great height ; but that the increas-
ing agitation of the water warned them to retire
with all speed, lest some mischance should befal
them.
" And indeed, sirs, they wer' not oot a moment
ower sune : for a graat swell was settin' in, whilk
wad sure ha' dinged their wee boatie agin the wa's
of the cavern."
Being questioned about the mysterious sounds,
as of far off or underground melody, he said he
had often heard it loud after a storm, when the
wind was down, but the waves were still heavy,
"and dree and weirdlike it soonded." One or
two of the baby bays they had passed, he said he
had sometimes seen almost filled with piles of
foam driven in and heaped up after a great storm,
and a strange, wonderful look such beds of white
air-bubbles had. Other local information, of the
same class, he gave them willingly and intelli-
342 AFLOAT.
gently ; and they did not part with him until he
had gone to Mrs. Alexander's with them, and
had a glass of whiskey ; the attention evidently
giving him much more pleasure than the
" drappie." And so ended their first day at
Eyemouth,
CHAPTER XVII,
St. Abb's Head Breakfast Kock-doves Overhanging Cliffs
Coldingham Loch and Church Storm Sailing in Quest
Kescue Return to Eyemouth.
THE morning broke beautifully fine and calm. A
few flakes of cloud stayed long enough to bedeck
themselves gorgeously in the glories which the sun
flung upon them out of his inexhaustible bounty,
" giving liberally/' like Him who made him,
and then retired before his unveiled face. Kippered
salmon, and rolled bacon, and broiled mutton,
and large crabs, and raspberry jam, and currant
jam, and bilberry jam, and flaky cakes hot
from the girdle, and oat- cake thin and crisp, and
excellent new bread, sat thick on the breakfast-
table, when the party appeared round it before
eight o'clock. Their hostess pleaded hard to be
allowed to try and tempt them with a mess of
porridge, but could not prevail. All seemed to
think it would be judged by their south-country
tastes and palates really " a mess," and there-
fore better to keep out of it. But justice was
344 ST. ABBS HEAD.
dealt, and with no grudging hand, among the
other dainty viands before them, and Mr. Spencer
was even heard to say that, in consideration of
such a sample of a Scotch breakfast, he could
almost bring himself to try the renowned porridge.
Luckless man ! Scarcely had his mouth closed
on the words, when Mrs. Alexander came in with
a basin of porridge she had made for (among
others) her eldest lad. Solid, brown, parting from
the containing basin all round, it was placed be-
fore Mr. Spencer, and he was invited to try it.
Instructed to add milk in plentiful proportion,
and having beer offered, if he preferred that
diluent, he ventured on the suspicious-looking
morsel. The lads looked on with evident gleeful
malice ; but he swallowed the spoonful, and made
no sign ; then a second, and, strange to say, a
third.
" Very good, indeed, Mrs. Alexander. I had
no idea before, how good. But if you only look
at the havoc we have made on the feast you set
out for us, you will, I am sure, be quite convinced
that I really cannot eat any more. That gentle-
man, no doubt," pointing to Ned, " will be dis-
appointed at not having a taste. Just take it
to him."
Imagine Ned's horror at the dreadful-looking
mess, placed beneath his moustaches. A lucky
PORRIDGE. 345
thought prevented the self-immolation he was
forced to contemplate with many a secret threat
of paying old Spencer out for the trick, it must be
confessed for, happening to cast his eye to the
door, he saw a bare-footed, -flaxen-headed laddie,
of some ten years old, looking with a wistful eye
at the porridge-basin.
" Poor fellow I" he exclaimed, with a tone of
pity, that by itself almost proved his capacity to
shine in private theatricals, ' ' it was your break-
fast that that greedy man has been eating, and I
was going to be as bad. I wont rob you of a
mouthful ; no, nor half a one. Here, take it, and
keep it safe ; and don't let your mammie have it
again."
The harangue, and delivered too by so distin-
guished looking a person to a shoeless Scotch
bairn, whose existence he would have ignored at
any other time, was too much for Bob's risible
muscles, and a laugh he tried in vain to suppress,
broke out only too short a time after the door had
been closed upon the hostess' retreat with her
' ' wee Willie/' as she called him. Ned was about
proceeding to execute his threat of pitching Bob
out of the window, or making him laugh the other
side of his face, if he didn't stop laughing, when
Tom Ling's knock at the door for orders put a
stop to active hostilities. The orders were soon
346 ST. ABB'S HEAD.
given, and Tom proceeded to execute them, by
trudging off, along " the braes," to Coldingham
Harbour, to secure a coble and a couple of rowers ;
to wait upon them at the nearer end of the Head,
where alone was a decently practicable access to
the water-edge near the promontory. They them-
selves soon after started, taking the same route
they had pursued the previous day, when in search
of the fern-producing cave. The greater part of
their track lay above the rocks, which in places
plunge down into deep, never-ebbing water. Here
and there they descended to the beach (where
there was one), and were astonished at the air of
grandeur worn by the rocks, which seemed due to
little else but colour and magnitude. Red they
were, rugged, precipitous, scarred, riven, and 300
to 400 feet high. They did not go to the village
at Coldingham Harbour, but following a footpath
which led between it and Northfield Farm, left
the houses on their right. The voices of the rock-
birds had been audible every now and then, fall-
ing upon the startled ear like the sudden crash of
a pack of hounds breaking into full cry at some
little distance. Looking forward in the direction
whence the sound seemed to come, Jack ex-
claimed
" Why, there is an old ruin of some sort stand-
ing right on the very edge of the precipice."
RIFLE-SHOT AT A CORMORANT. 347
And, indeed, what he took for a ruin, did look
very like one. Nor was he the first who has
thought, at first sight, that tall mass of rock, so
like a shattered gable, and that thin wall-like
lamina near it, must be due to man's art.
Arrived at a point from which these seeming ruins
might be reached by one possessing a steady
head, quick eye, and firm foot, they had abun-
dant proof whence the notes they had heard a
few minutes since proceeded. Scores of sea-birds
were seen sitting on the ledges beneath, or flying
to and from them ; while on the rocks at the base
of the cliff, lying almost a-wash, they saw half-a-
dozen cormorants seated, statue-like, rigid and
motionless. Ned had brought a rifle with him,
and must needs try his skill at one of these un-
gainly looking birds. The ball pinged on the
rock about five inches beyond the cormorant.
The shooter had not considered that, though the
bird was perhaps eighty or ninety yards from him,
still its point-blank distance was not half that;
and, in consequence, he had given too much eleva-
tion. Mr. Spencer had brought his gun, as he
wished to procure a few specimens of rock pigeons
and some rock-birds for stuffing purposes. Startled
by the crack of the rifle, forty or fifty of the wil-
locks left the rocks with downward flight; but
one that had been rising towards the egg-contain-
348 ST. ABB'S HEAD.
ing ledges continued its flight so as to pass over
terra firma, and within shot of Mr. Spencer. A rapid
aim and quick report, and the poor willock fell head-
long to the ground. Securing it by placing it in
a conical paper bag, with some cotton wool in its
bill and about its nostrils, and then depositing all
in a suitable receptacle, the party proceeded on-
wards to the Head.
They had seen their coble, with Tom Ling in
her, enjoying the sort of otium cum dignitate which
consists in being rowed by others preceding them,
and it was decided that, on reaching the little
landing-place (the inevitable locality of which was
now fully apparent to them, even if they had not
seen the coble heading in for it), they would go
aboard, and examine the foot of the stupen-
dous mountain mass they saw rising before
them, first ; and then proceed, after debarking,
to climb the three hills, of which the entire Head
appeared to be made up. Accordingly, embarking
as soon as they reached the little bay, the Cold-
ingham men proceeded to row them along the
base of the almost awful precipices they sa\v
towering up hundreds of feet above them, and
actually overhanging them. Flamboro' they
had thought wonderful, inexpressibly grand, as
they had stood on a somewhat projecting point
near the highest part of the cliff, and had been
OVERHANGING CLIFFS. 349
able thence to scan its whole face, on either hand,
for some little distance ; taking note the while of
the many tokens of the sea's wearing, irresistible
power, presented in the gigantic and grotesque
island fragments scattered all along the line of
coast, many of which they found were distinguished
with quaint designations. But from the very
nature of rock, the cliff rather receded, or sloped
back there ; and this, together with the uniform
dull white hue of the rocks, very sensibly de-
tracted from the general effect of the whole.
Here, on the contrary, was variety of colour, from
dark red to sombre brown, almost black, and the
most imposing aspect the precipice ever wears ;
especially when seen from below, and appearing
as if from some glamour cast over the eye, to as-
sume a sort of commencing toppling movement ;
due, no doubt, to the fact that the summit actu-
ally overhangs the base by several feet, and so
seems ready to overwhelm one who looks at it
from below. All of the four visitors were of one
mind, that there was a sublimity about the rock
masses of St. Abb's which could never be found,
nor indeed even looked for, when one came to
think, about Flamborough. They did not, how-
ever, suffer either their recollections or their com-
parisons to interfere with the object of their ex-
pedition ; and a ladder in the boat, which rather
350 ST. ABB'S HEAD.
interfered with their comfortable sitting, would
have reminded them of it, if they had shown any
disposition to forget it. They soon arrived at a
cave which the fishermen knew was much fre-
quented by the pigeons. They had seen them,
they said, flying in and out in large flocks, almost
the year round ; and often, when there was so much
surf that they had to dash right through a cloud
of it to get either in or out. The flight of eight
or ten pigeons the moment their boat grazed
against the rocks at the entrance of the cave,
showed their anticipations were correct ; and two
fell to the two reports of Mr. Spencer's gun.
His discontent may be imagined when the first,
on being picked up, proved to be only a parti-
coloured domestic pigeon. The other, however,
was a genuine wild rockier. The men said, that
in flocks of several scores which they had seen
about St. Abb's for years past, often half would
seem to be nothing but dovecot pigeons, which, it
seemed, preferred the wild life and ways and
habitations of the rock dove to their own tamer
mode of living and dwelling.
Proceeding to another cave only wild pigeons
issued from it, one of which Mr. Spencer ob-
tained. Applying the ladder with some difficulty,
they succeeded in reaching half a dozen eggs.
They now proceeded to complete the entire circuit
A HOST OF BIRDS. 351
of the rock, and were sensible of deep, almost pro-
found awe as they rounded the foot of the highest
part of the Head. Proceeding onwards, they came
at last to the base of the peninsular rock which
had been the site of Ebba's nunnery. On a little
patch of sand at the further side, the lads leaped
on shore ; but the climbing was too steep and
hazardous for them to proceed far. They re-
turned therefore to the coble, and pulling further
out from the Head, allowed themselves to attend
more to the countless birds which were wheeling
and careering above and around them. Kitti-
wakes, willocks, razorbills, jackdaws, herring-
gulls, lesser black-backed gulls, were there in
thousands. The concerts of the rockbirds, harsh,
dissonant, and yet with a rude sort of harmony in
them as heard from a distance ; the short repeated
cries of the kittiwakes ; the laughs and barks of
the larger gulls ; combined with the bewildering
flight of such incredible numbers, fairly filled our
adventurers with admiring interest and astonish-
ment. Mr. Spencer obtained without difficulty
the few birds he wanted as specimens ; and then
somewhat to the surprise of the boatmen, who
were not accustomed to such forbearance on the
part of the visitors to the Head with guns in
their possession put aside his gun. The stately
flight of a peregrine falcon rather made him wish
352 ST. ABB'S HEAD.
for a nearer intercourse with him ; but to that
the falcon decidedly objected. The fishermen
stated that a pair had built for a vast many years
on a particular part of the rock, which was thence
called Eagle's Crag. Hearing Bob's exclama-
tion, " How I wish I could get hold of their eggs/'
they rejoined, that if he wanted any other eggs,
they thought they could help him to get some : if
only there was time for them to go and seek the
necessary appliances. Bob did want both the
herring gull's eggs and the black-backed gull's,
very much; and so, as Mr. Spencer said they
should probably be about the Head for an hour
or two longer, the men decamped with all speed
to obtain what was wanted.
Mr. Spencer and the cousins now set them-
selves to climb the Head, a process which the
shortness and slipperiness of the grass, and the
steepness of the bank, did not tend particularly to
facilitate. However, perseverance was crowned
with success once and again. The site of the chapel
was visited ; the pool was examined ; a fragment
of rock, as large as a small carriage wheel, was
rolled down one of the steepest parts of the land
side, and making a gigantic leap as it reached the
bank below struck a stone wall as it rushed on-
wards (dashing a gap into it in an instant big enough
to let a waggon pass through easily), bounded on
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and on, until at last its energy was absorbed by
the soft soil of a newly ploughed field. The site
of the nunnery was then visited ; with the founda-
tion of its partition wall on the land side a line
of partition between it and the whole world out-
side still existing, and massive in its resisting
durability. The outlines of the interior building
were also quite discernible ; and as the party shud-
deringly looked over the sheer precipices which
enclosed it on four sides out of five, they won-
dered what the effect of such scenery and such a
life must have been on the minds of the little-
taught women who lived there. After a few
minutes spent here, and a little practice at wil-
locks with the rifle which was not particularly
fatal to the individuals selected as marks they
saw their friends, the boatmen, with ropes and a
bar and a third person, proceeding to a different
part of the Head, and waving and shouting to
them to come also. On coming up, it was found
that all preparations had been already made, and
that the new addition was the person who was to
act as climber. The Flamborough men had
seemed much more skilful and expert in the pro-
cedure. However, Bob and Jack were not dis-
posed to be critical, since the result was the addi-
tion of fifteen or sixteen eggs, laid by two different
species of gulls, besides a few " St. AbbV gpeoU
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mens of the same varieties of eggs they had ob-
tained at Flamborough.
Another personage now appeared on the scene ;
or, as Jack said, to Bob's great amusement,
" another craft hove in sight/' the nature of whose
freight caused the latter to set up a lusty " Hip,
hip, hip, hurrah !"
"What, hungry again, Bob?" said Mr. Spencer,
on recognising the cause of the lad's enthusiasm
in Tom Ling, who was coming along with a
heavyish basket, rather " pitching and sending/'
as Jack said, in his frequent slips upon the smooth
steep surface of the hill-side.
" Yes, sir, rather/' was the reply. " It wasn't
I who ate half a poor little barefooted boy's por-
ridge, after finishing no end of a breakfast. Even
Ned thought it was shame ; didn't you, my pet?"
This renewal of his laugh caused " my pet"
who was reclining on the short sward very much
at his ease to make a sweep back with his arm,
evidently meant to cut Bob off his legs ; which
mano3uvre the youth baffled by a sudden leap and
a laughing recommendation to his brother "to
eat a little more porridge before he tried that
again." Tom Ling now came up, and as he cast
a glance at the retreating forms of the boatmen,
(whose claims Mr. Spencer had more than satis-
fied a few minutes since,) he let out a quaint re-
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mark or two as to their lingo, and their outlandish
oars, and way of managing them. The oars had
" neither shape nor make wit V em: but what would
a good oar be good for in the hands of a parcel o'
chaps who was obliged to make it fast by a ring
to a thole pin, 'stead o' pulling wi't like Christian
seamen atween two ? Call that a harbour !"
speaking of Coldingham harbour " and this here
a coast. Why, it was like sailing in an oudacious
great iron pot, with a crack in one side of it for a
shelter. Give him the old Long-sea roads and the
Swin ; there was some comfort and safety there.
And he wasn't more than half happy about the
' Blue/ He was no judge of weather if there
wasn't something nasty breeding, for all it was so
fine and calm now. It was too fine and calm.
He'd heard one o' they chaps say, ' Its ower caulm,
it bodes a blaw ;' " and his attempt at the Scotch
intonation made Bob roar again. Mr. Spencer
had been struck too with a gradual increase of the
swell, though the surface of the ocean beyond the
immediate vicinity of the rocks was still as smooth
as a looking-glass, and showed but little of the
undulations of the swell yet.
" Tom," said he, " I think you're right ; it feels
like a storm to me, strange as it may seem to say
so. Get you away to Eyemouth as soon as you've
got your grub ; for though the bay's snug enough
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for most winds, I should think a north-easter would
play the devil there. And get her into the har-
bour, and make her snug as soon as you can ;
there'll be no harm in that."
Finding a hearty appetite for the prog, they
soon lightened the basket considerably ; particu-
larly in its liquid contents ; and then lay quietly
enjoying the rest, and the glory of the day and of
the view, with glad hearts. After a few minutes
of profound silence, Jack suddenly exclaimed,
"What was that?"
It was rather sudden and somewhat mysterious,
the sound which had broken the silence and pro-
duced Jack's question. It was like a deep, deep
sigh, almost sob ; such as a man draws in the in-
tensity of distress or pain. A moment after,
another and another. Where could they proceed
from ? Bob gave Jack a wicked poke with his
elbow,
" The ghosts of the nuns, Jack, or else some of
Ossian's chaps that ain't comfortable at the loss of
their damp cloud seats and porridgy mists this
grand sunny day."
" Hold your tongue, do, Bob. What can it be ?"
For the sounds were repeated ; and, as usual,
when the eye cannot assist the ear, it was really
most difficult to decide where they came from.
They grew deeper and deeper, and more mys-
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terious ; when in a moment Bob burst into a
great shout of amusement and interest, pointing
with his hand and outstretched arm to the ocean
about half or three-quarters of a mile from the
Head. There, disporting in the smooth, rippleless
clear waters, were seen the unwieldy forms of a
huge host of porpoises ; and the utter calm of the
day permitted the forcible expiration of air, made
by them as they rolled rather than leaped, out
and forwards in their career, causing the sounds
which had given so much perplexity, to be heard
with strange distinctness. It added a strange in-
terest to the scene, did this unlooked-for incident ;
and for several minutes did the party continue to
watch the passing shoal. The coast of Fife and
the distant hills of Stirling and Perthshire were
distinctly visible in front of them ; while to their
left they saw Fast Castle not three miles distant,
the Bass, North Berwick Law, and the Lothians.
On the other side, looking down beyond Berwick,
were Holy Island and Bamborough Castle in
view ; while, when turned completely round, the
beautiful Merse, the background of the Cheviots,
Home Castle, and the Eildon Hills above Melrose,
struck on the delighted eye. The day was clear
to a degree : and such a panorama had never before
been beheld by, at all events, three of the four
who were now looking on.
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It was with unfeigned reluctance that they pro-
ceeded to descend the hill. But they wanted to
see Coldingham Loch, which lay 100 yards above
the level of the sea. They wanted also to look for
the remains of a British camp, with four distinct
lines of circumvallation ; and a Roman camp; both
of which lay at no great distance from St. Abb's.
And then, above all, they wanted to pay a visit to
the remains of Coldingham Priory Church. The
camps and the loch were found without trouble ;
and, as they were proceeding thitherwards, Mr.
Spencer stumbled on a nest with three or four
eggs, which struck him as in a sort familiar to
him, and yet left him in no doubt that he had not
seen them before. Calling Bob to him, he asked
him what they were. Bob, thus appealed to, pro-
nounced them to be the common bunting's. They
must be a bunting's of some sort, from their mark-
ings ; and they were too big to belong to a yellow-
hammer or reed-sparrow. They were, of course,
most carefully disposed of in the egg-case. Trudg-
ing away towards Coldingham, as they rounded a
peculiar-looking hill, one of the last spurs of the
Lammermuirs, they came suddenly on a pair of
ravens, and had a nearer view of them than those
wary birds usually accord even to their warmest
admirers. Arrived in Coldingham, they found
little difficulty in hunting up the key of the
COLDINGHAM CHURCH. 359
church. Remnants of the old tower faced them
as they entered the kirkyard from the street, and
other fragments of walls, and foundations, and
columns, which Mr. Spencer, and Jack also, found
it very difficult to account for, or to make har-
monize one with another. The difficulty was ex-
plained by the key-bearer, who said he was the
precentor ; and what that might be both Jack and
Bob wondered not a little, and Ned was not much
wiser. His statement was, that part of these
foundations belonged to a much earlier building
that had been built on this site ; and that the
pavement of the later building had been laid
above these remains of the foundations of the
former one; that, in fact, therefore, they were
looking upon the traces of two entirely distinct
and unconnected edifices. All that remained of
the later erection were the north and east walls of
what had once been the choir of the church.
These now formed the north and east sides of the
building which served as Parish Church. The
remaining sides were of modern masonry, not
simply of the plainest, but of the meanest descrip-
tion ; and the three ugly, awkward, misshapen
windows on the south side were covered, on the
week day, with equally ugly, misshapen, ill-fit-
ting black shutters ! But how beautiful, nay,
how glorious, once had been even still was the
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architecture of the ancient parts ! Norman or
circular arches on the outside, and on the inside
the same, intersecting, with intercolumniations ;
the windows themselves slightly pointed ; the
clerestory ; the elaborate capitals all unlike ; the
perfect workmanship ; and the beautiful character
of the material a warm, red sandstone. But sad
to say, mutilation and whitewash had been the
order of the day inside, /and the most ruthless
barbarities had been practised to get in pews and
galleries.* On the outside, Bob found wall-rue
and black spleenwort growing profusely, and
secured some specimens of both.
Leaving the Church, with a sort of saddened
feeling at seeing so much beauty in so great
neglect, they turned their steps in the direction
of Eyemouth; learning from Mr. Spencer, as
they walked, the little he knew about the history
of the Priory. Founded about the year 1098 by
Edgar, King of Scotland, and receiving continued
* It is necessary to say that all this is much altered now.
The ancient parts of the edifice have been judiciously restored ;
the mutilations made good, the galleries and pews that occasioned
them having given place to neat sittings. The west and south
walls, however, grievously detract still from the effect of the whole.
They are of plain masonry ; of course, therefore, utterly incon-
gruous, contrasted, as they so strikingly are, with the elaborate
architecture of the opposite walls. And besides there is a sort of
sham about them, due to the fact that what colour they have is
out on above a facing of plaster.
COLDINGHAM CHURCH. 361
marks of favour and consideration from successive
monarchs, it rapidly grew in wealth, importance,
and influence, until at last after many struggles
and conflicts for its possession the Priory itself
was burnt by the Earl of Hertford, in 1545. The
magnificent Church, however, and the buildings
which immediately surrounded it still stood ; and
it was part of Oliver Cromwell's work to destroy
it. It was seized and occupied by some of the
inhabitants of the country, as he passed through
to attack the Scots army, and its defenders were
strong enough to repulse a detachment he sent
against it. In consequence, he proceeded to attack
it in person, and in two days, with the help of
two cannon, so battered and shook it that they
were obliged to capitulate. Once master of it, he
determined it should be no further a hindrance to
him ; and therefore had it blown up with gun-
powder, nothing being saved from the ruin but
the fragments they had just been examining.
The aspect of the day was now altering. A
sort of moaning sound, or soughing, was faintly
heard from time to time ; and a dark bank had
begun to form over the ocean to the north. But
still all was perfectly calm. Mr. Spencer walked
on rapidly and uneasily, until they came in sight
of Eyemouth Bay. The appearance of the " True
Blue," with a boat ahead towing her in the direc-
362 ST. ABB'S HEAD.
tion of the harbour, allayed his rising anxiety. A
little whirling gust came upon them just now,
catching up leaves, and grass, and dust ; and then
all was still again : and this recurred once or
twice. Soon, however, they reached Eyemouth ;
and after giving an eye to the new berth taken up
by the " Blue," they retraced their steps to their
lodgings and to dinner.
Sufficiently tired with their morning's rambles,
they felt no inclination, after dinner was over, to
go beyond the limits of the little garden which lay
behind the house, and from which they looked
over the bay. All was still as calm and still as
possible almost unnaturally so, in fact ; and the
dark bank to the north was still what it was, in
appearance, two hours before. Ned puffed out,
between the whiffs of smoke, something about " a
false alarm." Mr. Spencer shook his head, and
said he feared many a poor fellow, before day-
break, might have fatal cause to wish it were a
false alarm. Between eight and nine they re-
turned to their sitting-room, and still had the tea-
things on the table, when the rushing of a strong
wind was suddenly audible. Ten minutes later,
they could hardly hear themselves speak, unless
they used a louder tone than ordinary. In an
hour, sheets of foam and spray were flung over the
back-windows of the house, and the roar of the
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tempest was appalling. All faces were pale with
awe ; not that they thought of, or feared danger ;
but they felt themselves in the presence of a
mighty Power indeed One who holds the seas in
the hollow of His hand and their spirits within
them owned it. They tried to look out, but the
incessant dashings of the spray blinded them, and
they were glad to retire to the shelter of the house
again.
Early in the morning in fact, as soon as it was
light enough to see anything after an almost
sleepless night, Bob looked out of his window,
and saw the little bay before him one wild turmoil
of tumultuous waters. Wave pursued wave, fall-
ing over in rapid succession on the beach, from a
height of twelve or fifteen feet ; while beyond,
looking to St. Abb's Head, the spectacle was
sublime indeed. The huge mountain walls of the
cliffs were white with incessant foam, one-half to
two -thirds of their total height. Bob went and
called Mr. Spencer, who slept on the other side of
the house, and he with the two lads stood en-
tranced by the stern, fearful magnificence of the
scene. Towards sunrise the gale moderated, and
it subsided then almost as rapidly as it had risen.
Not so the troubled ocean. Its irresistible might,
once roused, was not to be so easily laid again ;
and the great, dark, monster waves still rolled,
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and broke, and thundered on. When Bob and
his cousin went out about seven o'clock, they saw
large masses of foam still lying a long distance
from the sea; though now and for some time
past, as it were, melting away. Such a look
down, when they reached a high part of the
cliff, on such a sea, they had. never before con-
templated even in their dreams; and to stand
behind the waves, as they rolled up on the beach
near the lodgings, almost made their hearts quake,
as each in its turn crested, turned over and rushed
down in watery ruin. A rapid walk after break-
fast, in the Gun's-green direction, soon brought
them to the Baby-bays, as they had called them,
a day or two before, and which the countryman
had told them he had seen almost full and piled
up with foam. The same sight greeted their eyes ;
and a strange sort of impulse to fling themselves
forward into that treacherous, mysteriously-invit-
ing bed, made both of them involuntarily draw
back.
Returning soon, they were in full time to
accompany Mr. Spencer and Ned to the church ;
and then they learned what a "precentor" was, and
felt it strange indeed, as English Churchmen well
may, to see the congregation sit to sing and stand
to pray. The psalmody, joined in by the entire
congregation, was impressive. But the sermon
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seemed sadly long, though good and sensible in
its way. In the afternoon they went again, and
were rather impressed with the solemnity of the
public baptism of a child, presented for that pur-
pose by its " answering parent." They could not
help at least, the seniors of the party contrast-
ing the solemn, serious, thoughtful demeanour
and manner of that country person, with the
flippancy, and inattention, and evident entire
ignorance of the service, and their own position
and responsibility, to be witnessed in English
parish churches on the part of the village god-
fathers and godmothers.
Towards noon, reports of losses at sea began to
flow in. A steamer was reported to have gone
down off St. AbVs Head ; a timber ship, from the
north, had gone to pieces on the rocks, near Burn-
mouth, and the shore was fringed with timber ; a
vessel, in a foundering state, was visible beyond
the Head, but its crew would be or had been
already rescued : and it was feared more mischief
still would be heard of further south.
Mr. Spencer, on leaving the church in the
afternoon, had gone up on to the fort, and had
spent some minutes looking over the sea with
a very excellent glass, which was part of the
equipment of the " Blue." He came down with
an air of pre-occupation, and inquired for Tom
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Ling. He soon succeeded in finding Tom ; and
the result of his communication was to start him
in the direction of the harbour, and on board,
with unusual haste. Mr. Spencer joined him
without loss of time ; and the two lads, who had
seen most of what had taken place, followed close
behind him. They found Tom, and the boy, and
their master, busily employed in getting the
" Blue" away from her moorings, and in a very
short space she was free, and they proceeded to
urge her outwards towards the mouth of the har-
bour, by the help of the herring-boats or the pier,
as she passed near one or the other. Bob and
Jack were on deck, but out of the way, and not
worrying Mr. Spencer with questions, which they
knew he disliked when much occupied with any-
thing. Two or three seamen were standing near
the end of the pier, and they asked what induced
Mr. Spencer to act thus. He replied, in few but
civil terms, " that, with his glass, he had made
out an object, which he thought looked like a
waterlogged boat : it might be nothing but a bit
of timber, and it was very difficult, Avith such a
sea still on, to make it out at all ; but still, he
once thought he saw part of a human figure in
or on it. He might be quite wrong, and so did
not say anything about it publicly ; but still he
could not rest without going to see."
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The men at once volunteered to go with hin\,
and gave him every help in working the boat clear.
She was just rounding into the bay, when Mr.
Spencer recommended the lads to get on to the
breakwater they were passing, as the voyage would
be rough and disagreeable. They would not hear
of it, however, if he would allow them to remain on
board ; and rough and disagreeable it was, as they
found, even before they got fairly out of the har-
bour. The sea was still high, and the wind strong
enough to require a reef or two in the canvas ;
but, on getting a little offing, and being able to
lay her course, the "Blue" stood to her work
gallantly, drawing out repeated and hearty com-
mendation from the Eyemouth boatmen for her
admirable qualities. Still, many a buffet did she
meet with; and with many a forward send,
plunging through a curling wave, she threw up
showers of spray, which made the lads very thank-
ful for the oilskins Mr. Spencer's providence had
prepared for them before leaving home, and
which they had got into (by Tom's advice) as
soon as they could after she was put under can-
vas. Jack was soon seen retreating to the lee-
ward gunwale, and was, to all appearance, occu-
pied there in looking intently into the sea. Bob
held up manfully. Meanwhile, Mr. Spencer was
describing to the Eyemouth men the direction in
368 ST. ABB'S HEAD.
which he had seen the supposed boat, the bearings
he had taken, and the distance at which he had
estimated it lay from the shore. His marks he
soon succeeded in enabling them to comprehend,
and one of them a very intelligent fellow, who
seemed to know every rock on the coast for miles
went aft to Tom, who was steering, and sug-
gested to him a little alteration in the course.
Another of them, a young fellow, active and with
the eye of a hawk, went up into the weather-
rigging, where he kept up a vigilant out-look.
Having reached the supposed place which Mr.
Spencer was satisfied was really in the right direc-
tion, when he looked back to the fort, over a
peculiar projection of rock from the main mass of
the cliff they proceeded to tack and tack again,
making short courses on each tack, so as to
" beat" the ocean face as thoroughly as a well-
trained pointer does a stubble. Sad work this
was for poor Jack. He bore his miseries valiantly,
though, and uttered no sound of complaint. Bob
was cut out for a sailor that was " as clear as
mud," Tom said : neither rolling, nor pitching, nor
sending, made any difference to his imperturbable
stomach. They had been now nearly half-an-hour
at this uneasy work, and it was observed by Bob
that two or three yawls were putting off from
Eyemouth ; the news of Mr. Spencer's expedition
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having, as it afterwards appeared, got wind among
the fishermen. All eyes but Tom's and Sandy
Turnbull, the look-out's,, were on these boats,
when a sudden, sharp shout from Sandy caused
all to be forgotten in an instant but the object of
their search.
" Here it is," he sung out, " on the starboard
bow ! Luff luff hold her there."
" How far away ?" cried Mr. Spencer.
"I've lost it, noo ; but I'd reckon aboot 250
fadom. I see it the noo. It's a boat."
Mr. Spencer and Andrew Haswell both ran for-
ward. Presently, they too, caught sight of the
object; and, in a minute more, as it topped a
wave, a human arm was seen raised, and waved, as
if with difficulty, and then to drop again. The
excitement was intense : Jack's sea-sickness was
forgotten. In what was really only a short period,
but which seemed to the expectant, excited crew
of the " True Blue" only too long, Mr. Spencer's
voice was heard directing Tom how to steer.
" Stand by with that boat-hook," he said to
Andrew.
A minute more, and his last orders came
" Luff, Tom, a little. Now, steady." And pass-
ing almost grazing a boat, full to the thwarts
with water, it was secured with marvellous rapi-
dity, during the few seconds the " Blue's" way
B B
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was partly suspended. A woman and a babe were
lifted into the sloop, and the boat itself eased aft,
and, fastened by its own painter which had been
trailing in the water to the stern of the "Blue/'
Her sails were now allowed to fill again, she wore
round, and began to beat her way back towards Eye-
mouth. The poor woman was in the last stage of
exhaustion from suffering and exposure. One of
her arms was broken, and she was sadly bruised
besides. The child, a fair little lassie of about a
year old, seemed dead. Bob begged to have her
put into his charge, and while the poor mother
was laid on one of the locker beds, he stripped the
child at the other, rubbed it dry, and tried, by
chafing its limbs with flannel and endeavouring
to communicate warmth from his own body, to
restore what he hoped was only suspended anima-
tion. A gasp or two of the infant's encouraged
him to redouble his efforts. Mr. Spencer, in the
mean time, had been busy in introducing a tea-
spoonful or two of wine into the woman's mouth,
which she had, though with evident effort, suc-
ceeded in swallowing. She seemed too weak to
speak; but her eyes, filling with grateful tears,
acknowledged the kindness shown her. After a
little more wine had been administered, she
endeavoured, though feebly, to raise herself,
forgetting, it seemed, her broken limb. The
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sudden pain produced by the effort caused her to
sink back fainting ; and it was only after several
minutes of assiduous attention that she was re-
stored to consciousness. Just as this wag effected,
Bob's labours were rewarded by seeing the child
open its eyes and gaze into his face. A few
seconds after, it uttered a low wailing cry. The
sound roused the woman effectually :
" My bairn, my bairn/' she cried ; " give me
my bairn/'
The baby, carefully wrapped in a worsted jersey,
was taken across the cabin, and put within her
sound arm ; Mr. Spencer gently holding her, that
she might not again hurt the injured one. By
this time, they were within hail of the Eyemouth
boats, to whom Sandy and Andrew announced
their success. The " Blue " pressed on, making
all the sail she could, in order to get the poor
woman and her baby properly attended to as soon
as possible. But before they reached the harbour,
the mother was sufficiently restored and collected
to say she was the wife of the master of the brig
" Sally," which had foundered about six o'clock
in the morning ; that her husband had lashed an
empty cask into the boat (which they had on
deck), and had put her and the babe into it not
five minutes before the fatal sea struck the brig ;
that he was not two yards from her when the
872 ST. ABB'S HEAD.
shock came ; that she thought she had been in-
sensible for a minute or two, and when she came
to herself, she was lying on her back on the
thwarts, drenched, with her arm broken and her
child pressed with the other to her bosom ; that
how the boat had lived in such a sea, she could
not think; that once, as the boat slid down a
wave, she thought she had seen a sail, and had
tried to wave her arm ; and that she could re-
collect no more. Half Eyemouth was collected
on the pier as the " Blue," with lowered sails,
moved in. Twenty hands were stretched to help
bear the rescued woman; twenty houses offered
for her reception ; as many women pressed round
Bob, to get the baby from him : but he would not
relinquish it. Keeping close to the poor woman,
who was carried along in an arm-chair by two
stout sailors, he entered with her into the house
selected to be her temporary home; and only
when she was laid in the homely bed, did he give
up the charge he had tended so kindly and un-
weariedly. Leaving the house, Mr. Spencer and
the lads bent their steps towards their lodgings.
As they left the door, they were met by a large
party of fisher people ; and one tall, fine, weather-
beaten fellow, taking off his woollen cap, stepped
up to Mr. Spencer, and, grasping his hand, said,
" God bless you, sir, for a kind-hearted gentle-
EYEMOUTH AGAIN. 373
man. There's ne'er a fisher lad or lass in Eye-
mouth, but will remember your name, and your
deed this day."
Mr. Spencer simply said he thought there
wasn't a man there but would have done as he
had, in the same circumstances and that he was
much indebted to their three companions for the
valuable assistance they had given him.
Before night, Bob had the delight of hearing
not only that the poor woman's arm had been set
with little difficulty, and that she was now sleep-
ing quietly, but that his little protegee was sleeping
too, after having taken a little food, and was even
looking almost rosy in her sleep. With these
tidings Bob returned to Mr. Spencer ; and half
an hour after, the whole party were themselves in
bed and asleep.
CHAPTER XVIII.
Trip to the Bass Dunbar Phosphorescent Sea Fishing in the
Whitadder Fast Castle Dunglass and Pease Deans Fame
Islands Home again.
BEFORE breakfast the following morning both lads
were at the door of the cottage in which the
rescued woman and her child had been placed
over-night ; and were pleased to find, that though
she had been feverish and restless in the earlier
morning with the pain of her arm, yet later on
she had fallen asleep again, and had not yet stirred
in her slumber. The child, a dear little playful
thing, seemed quite restored this morning, and
after at first turning away from the lads as they
stood by the woman who held her, presently
permitted Bob to take her in his arms and began
to play with his hair, and to make divers little in-
articulate sounds, clearly expressive of pleasure.
She was even a little unwilling to leave him when
he turned with Jack to leave the cottage and go
home to breakfast. As he went out of the door,
a fine specimen of a sailor-lad was just approach-
VISIT OF SAILOR-LAD. 375
ing as if to enter. Seeing the lads come out,
after a moment's earnest gaze, he asked if they
belonged to the gentleman who had saved his
poor sister yesterday. They replied they had
been with Mr. Spencer when he picked up the
poor woman in the boat. Was she his sister ?
" Yes/' he said ; " and she had been like a
mother to him, when his own mother died. He
couldn't thank them and the gentleman. Might
he come in an hour's time, and speak to the gentle-
man ?"
They told him certainly he might, and asked
how he came to be there. He replied, the small
brig he belonged to, fearing dirty weather, had put
into Eyemouth about half an hour before the
" Blue" was taken in ; and two or three other
vessels had done the same.
The lads now walked on, and told Mr. Spencer
of the sailor-lad they had encountered and his re-
quest. They had only just done breakfast when
Mrs. Alexander came in to say the young sailor
was asking if he could see Mr. Spencer.
" Send him in," said that gentleman.
He presently entered, bearing ' in his hand a
light deal case of some dimensions. His voice
faltered as he said,
" God bless you, sir, for what you did for my
puir sister. I can'na thank you as I ought;
876 TRIP TO THE BASS.
I wus I could. But 'deed, sir, I sail not
forget."
Mr. Spencer told him to say no more about it.
The lad still seemed anxious to say something,
but hesitated, almost painfully.
" What is it, my good boy ? Is there anything
I can do for you, or your sister, besides taking
care of her till she can get back to her friends ?"
" 'Deed no, sir ; ye're ower gude, as it is. But
might I speir a question at the young gentle-
men?"
" Oh ! yes," cries Bob, with a good-humoured
laugh, " a dozen if you like. Fire away."
A smile lighted up the lad's good-looking face,
as he said,
" I wad na be ower bauld, but Sawney Trum-
bull tell't me ye were gey keen for bird's eggs ?"
Bob confessed the truth of the impeachment.
" Wad ye ease a puir fallow's thankfu' heart,
and tak' these ?" opening his light box.
There must have been sixty or seventy eggs
displayed as the box-lid stood open, scarcely any
of which were familiar to Bob and his cousin.
Each was in a neatly constructed cell, with its
name (real or supposed) written in a bold, legible
boy's hand on a piece of paper beneath it, and
secured against shaking loose by a packing of
cotton wool and fine oakum. There were three
EGGS, "WALES" or THEM. 377
trays in the box, which lifted out by loops of cord
at the ends, so that in all there were nearly 200
eggs. The lads looked with delight and admira-
tion on the frail treasures displayed before their
eyes ; and eager inquiries ensued as to how and
where he had got so many. He replied, dashing
a tear away with the back of his hand, and with
a sort of indignant action at his own weakness :
" My puir brither-in-law brought me mony a
score frae Norroway ; an' my ain brither got me
mair frae Iceland, where he sailed onst ; and I've
been to Shetland and Orkney myseP, and fand
mony there."
He added, that he had formed a smaller col-
lection once before, which had been sold for him
by a friend in London ; and that, encouraged by
the success of that venture, he had tried it on a
larger scale, and this box was the result of his
efforts. But if they would only take them, it
would be ' ' siccan a comfort till him ; he could na'
find aught else he could dee for them."
Bob could not think of that, even if he had
wanted them all ; which he certainly did not, as
of some sorts there were from six, to ten or twelve.
He said so, and proposed to take what he did
want, and pay fairly for them. The poor sailor-
boy's concern and discomfiture were evident.
That his thank-offering should not be accepted,
378 TRIP TO THE BASS.
and his poor full heart not relieved ! Mr. Spencer
came to his aid :
" Bob/' said he, ' c at least take one of each you
want. And, hark ye, my boy (to the sailor), I
have a daughter at home who likes eggs ; I shall
ask you for one each of the rarer ones for her, and
two of each of those that you have plenty of.
What say you ?"
Seizing Mr. Spencer's hand, and dropping it
again in a moment, as if fearing he had taken a
liberty in his eager gladness, he cried, " God
bless yer honour, and I wuss there were twice
as mony. But winna the young gentlemen tak'
two where I have siccan wales ?"
Bob agreed without further demur, and the work
of selection began. The young owner certainly
could not have been more keen in collecting his
eggs, than he was now in giving them away ; and
it was hard to convince him that, where he had
but four of a sort, he had not such " wales" that
they ought to have all four. The shearwater, and
the stormy petrel, the skua-gull, and the Arctic
gull, the great black-backed gull, the great northern
diver, the black-throated and the red-throated
diver, the red-necked grebe and the red-breasted
merganser, the wild swan and the grey goose, the
red-necked phalarope, the scoter and the scaup-
duck, the wigeon, the purple sandpiper, and the
PLEASED AT LAST. 379
dunlin, all contributed either two or four eggs to
Bob and Jack's collection and to Tay's; and a
total of nearly sixty eggs was subtracted from
Jamie Grant's deal box. His delight seemed ex-
cessive at finding his gift most thoroughly
appreciated; and when Bob gave him his own
sailor's knife one he had bought new at Hare-
borough, in anticipation of this trip and Mr.
Spencer added to that a plain but good sea-glass,
telling him to remember them sometimes when
he used it, his heart grew too full, and he just
managed to say, " 'Deed he suld remember them
by ither things nor that," and then made a
hasty escape from the room with his remaining
eggs.
While the egg-selection had been proceeding,
Mr. Spencer had gone to see the poor woman,
who was very earnest in her short expressions of
gratitude. She belonged to decent folk, she said,
and had a brother a master mariner, and her
husband had saved a little money. She should
not be in want ; and God, who had saved her in
the bitter storm, " wad na leave her nor forsake
her, the noo." The Doctor, who came in while
Mr. Spencer was there, gave a good account of
his patient, and added, that in no house in Eye-
mouth could she be better taken care of than by
widow Dickson and her daughter Willison. Mr.
380 TRIP TO THE BASS.
Spencer had then returned to the lodgings in time
to be present at the departure of Jamie, as already
noticed.
The question, What was to be done with so much
of the day as was still before them ? was now dis-
cussed. A trip to the Bass ; an excursion to
Dunglass Dean and Pease Dean, with a look at
Fast Castle as they passed ; or a fishing excursion
up the Eye, were severally proposed and discussed.
Mr. Spencer thought they could manage the Bass
Rock very well ; and if they were bent upon a
day's fishing and Ned he knew was a great
angler why not go to the Whiteadder, in which,
he believed, they might get as good a day's fly-
fishing as in almost any unpreserved stream in the
kingdom ? It would take a day, no doubt ; but
they would be repaid by commensurate success,
probably, and if not, still by an interesting excur-
sion ; while the fly-fishing in the Eye, he believed,
was but limited, and what there was, not first-rate.
Mr. Spencer's suggestion was adopted by accla-
mation. It was decided to start for the Bass
Rock, in the " Blue," without delay, and to give
the following day to the Whiteadder expedition.
Jack, for whom some consideration was mani-
fested, refused to be a hindrance to the plan, for
which, indeed, he was as keen as any of the party ;
notwithstanding the probable consequences to
THE BASS. 381
him ; for there was still some " sea on." Half-an-
hour saw them sailing out of the harbour, and
another half-hour saw them rounding St. Abb's
Head, and opening that part of the ocean which
narrows into the Frith of Forth. Fast Castle was
seen on its precarious-looking stance, domineered
by the rocky masses behind it. Dunbar, with
its ancient castle, dipping its foot in the sea,
was passed. The Bass and North Berwick Law
loomed higher and larger, until at last, in about
three hours from the time of departure from
Eyemouth, they lay-to off the Bass, and under
shelter of its massy bulk. Some little delay
occurred in obtaining permission from the keeper
of the Bass to land ; but during these few minutes
of inactivity the boys were sufficiently occupied,
as they had indeed been for the last mile or two
of the run, by watching the numberless gannets
as they sailed along on their buoyant pinions to
and from their home. Soon, leaving the " Blue "
and ascending the not very accessible approach to
the summit of the Bass, they had the pleasure of
witnessing the novel spectacle of countless wild
birds sitting still while human intruders were
walking amid their nests. The lads were even
allowed to stroke some of the matrons on whom
they were calling ; whose response to the civility
vras calculated to suggest the advisability of a visit
382 TRIP TO THE BASS.
from a temperance advocate, rather than any great
degree of annoyance or impatience on their part ;
for it was a sort of muttered " Grog, grog." One
lady was pointed out as a mature specimen, having
been a frequenter of the rock now for more than
thirty years. Others were mentioned, whose iden-
tity had been so long recognised as to render it
certain that they could not be less than thirty-five
to forty years old. A remarkable statement was
made by the keeper, to the effect that the gannet
does not reach maturity until four years old, and
certainly does not begin to breed until it reaches
that age. The changes in colour, too, described
by their attendant, as experienced by the gannet,
from the time of their exclusion from the egg up
to that of putting on the full dress of maturity,
Bob wondered what toga virilis was in Solan-goose
cackle, were sufficiently curious and interesting.
When first hatched, their skin is featherless and
downless, and of a bluish black. In a few days
they are covered with a white down, which grows
rapidly enough, and gives them the appearance of
large powder puffs. Over this downy substitute
for a flannel waistcoat the feathers grow by
degrees, and this first crop of plumage is black.
At about eight or nine weeks old they are able to
fly, and from that time till they come of age, the
general hue of their feathers is black, with more
The visit to the Bass Rock. p.
DUNBAR. 383
or fewer white streaks and spots about them. The
plumage of the matron bird is white, all but the
large wing feathers, which are black; and the
short close feathers of the head and neck, which
are of a creamy buff colour. Obtaining the eggs
they desired from the keeper, they returned to
their vessel, and were soon racing along merrily
on their return to Eyemouth.
On sighting Dunbar again, it was decided
to land there, and to visit the field of Dunbar
Fight. A look at the castle as they passed;
and then up on to the hill at the back of the
town, where the form of the bit of land between
Belhaven Bay and another the next indentation
in the rocky coast towards St. Abb's, on which
bit of land the town stands, was displayed at one
glance. It forms a kind of peninsula, the base of
which, from the inmost point of one to that of the
other of the two bays, is about a mile and a-half.
Along this line they knew Oliver's army was
ranged. On that hill beyond, looking from the
town called the Doon Hill lay the Scots army.
The left of Oliver's position lay on Brocksmouth
House, and there, between the rival armies runs
the Brocksburn. At that point, where the high
road is seen crossing the course of the burn, the
great and decisive struggle of the great and deci-
sive battle took place. There, on either side the
884 TRIP TO THE BASS.
road, some three thousand Scots lay dead that
squally, showery Autumn morning ; and eleven
thousand more were prisoners to an army scarcely
mustering a like number of actual combatants.
Mr. Spencer had visited this famous field once
before, and with pains and difficulty had made out
the principal posts, and scenes of the principal
events. Jack's interest was extreme ; and ques-
tion upon question showed alike the avidity and
the intelligence with which he fixed on the details
Mr. Spencer was able to afford him. Ned, too,
came out strong with historical recollections of
what had taken place before and after the battle,
and how Cromwell was fairly hemmed in by his
foe before their own incaution had given him the
opportunity of delivering one of his fatal attacks,
Time passed pleasantly enough ; and, as they re-
turned towards the sea, Mr. Spencer, as if think-
ing of a matter which had hitherto escaped his
recollection which indeed was the case with the
others as well as himself exclaimed,
" How about dinner ? Are we to go without,
to-day ?"
The word was no sooner uttered than every one
felt himself reminded that he really was very
hungry ; and so, by mutual consent, they turned
into the first respectable-looking hotel they could
find, and were speedily discussing sea-trout col-
PHOSPHORESCENT SEA. 385
lops, and beefsteaks, to everybody's entire grati-
fication. Tom Ling and Tim had already been
cared for ; for Mr. Spencer had directed Tim to
carry back some prog for himself and his father
when he had been left in charge of the boat after
landing his master. So they did not hurry mat-
ters much, and it was past six o'clock before they
got under way again on their return to Eyemouth.
The wind still served them, though lighter than
in the morning, and they slipped along through the
water, making about five or six knots. As they
reached St. Abb's the wind failed almost alto-
gether, and it was as much as they could do to
keep any way on her at all. But none of the
voyagers were discontented at that or wished them-
selves anywhere else. It was a glorious summer
evening, and as the light failed more and more,
and the bright heavenly hues left by the depart-
ing sun faded away, the sea seemed striving to
compensate for the loss by its own beautiful
phosphorescence. The wake of the " Blue " was a
path of living fire, widening and paling from her
stern beyond. A rope trailing from her quarter
created an undulating fiery serpent. The deck
pail, thrown overboard with a splash, raised a
fountain of liquid fire drops, rising from a bright
ring of molten fire, and falling into paler rings,
but striking out glowing gems in each as they fell,
c c
386 TRIP TO THE BASS.
the brighter as the rings grew fainter. The little
ripple at the cutwater, too, was of liquid flame ;
and the wavelets, as they danced against the side
and fell back rebuked for their presumption,
blushed and paled in ceaseless alternation. Once,
twice an " isle of light" was passed, small but
glorious. J Twas a fragment of wreck, maybe,
caressed as if in pity by that which so short a
time before, in its stormy might, had wrought the
ruin of the gallant ship it belonged to ; but now
dropped warm glowing tears over the havoc it
had made. Often a dull sullen plunge or two,
showing, both to sight and ear, the track of some
monster of the deep, caused bright though evan-
escent illuminations of the dusky deep at some
distance from their course. It was an evening of
enchantment. Neither of the young people had
seen anything like it before, and they were not
soon weary of dipping their hand amid the other
startlings forth of the phosphorescent light we
have told of and seeing it clearly illuminated
with the lambent, innocuous flame ; trying mean-
while to catch some brighter gem of light as it
seemed to pass across their fingers. Presently,
when Tom and the lad went ahead in the boat
and began to tow, exclamations of delight burst
from both the boys at the gleams and flashes and
sparkles and rings and sheets of light struck out
SAFE BACK. 387
by the oars ; and they were late as it was begin-
ning to be almost sorry when the sluggish sails
flapped and slowly filled with a cat's-paw of wind,
which returned once and again, and at last car-
ried them safely within the Markers at the outer
edge of Eyemouth Bay ; and the dull plunge of
the anchor told them that they had seen almost
all they were to see of Nature's marvellous fire-
works.
It was nearly twelve when they landed, and
they were to be en route for the Whitadder by
seven the next morning. A horse and light cart
had been secured for them by Mrs. Alexander
during the day, and they had nothing to do now,
but get to sleep as soon as they could, and sleep
hard enough to make up by quality for what it
wanted in quantity. Bob and Jack did this effec-
tually ; and it must be confessed that Ned was
not much behind them. The latter, moreover,
had volunteered to call the whole party at six, and
did it ; to the especial admiration of his brother,
who paid him some neat compliments on his im-
proving alertness, and was repaid by a blow on
the muscle of his twisted arm, which made him
sing out, and ask Jack to help him punch the
big chap's head. However, breakfast passed
without further hostilities, except upon the pro-
visions, the plenty and variety and excellence of
388 FISHING IN THE WHITADDER.
which almost outdid all the former breakfasts Mrs.
Alexander had set before them.
Having well eaten, and in so far prepared for
the fatigues of the day, they left Eyemouth punc-
tually at seven, with a sharp lad as driver, and soon
were passing Netherbyres and Ayton House and
Church, and leaving Ayton on the right, turned
into the Dunse-road, which they purposed following
until they came to Edington Toll. Here they
turned off in a southerly direction, leaving the cart
at Edington Hill, with instructions to go on to
Foulden, and to meet them at Edrington Castle
at five in the afternoon. Their direction now lay
due south, and brought them in less than two
miles to the banks of the Whitadder. There
was a ford, but no bridge ; but Ned's waterproofs
and good nature enabled him to transfer both
boys to the further bank, whither Mr. Spencer
soon followed them, having obtained a dry passage
in the foremost of two country carts, passing, as
usual, in the charge of one carter. The immediate
object in crossing was to pay a visit to Hutton
Hall, an old Peelhouse, or strong country fort,
which stood in the steep wooded bank of the river,
a little to their right, as they stood on the verge
of the ford near the mill. Making their way by
climbing the bank, some paths (evidently devised
as if a part of some pleasure-ground, but now as
BUTTON HALL. 389
evidently subject to neglect for years past) helped
them much, leading past a cavern in the bank,
which seemed once to have been a pet resort,
perhaps of ladies. The strong Peel-tower, with
the ill-according additions made to it in later and
safer times, pleased them much, though not
presenting much that was either fair or picturesque
to look upon ; and the place of concealment, open-
ing out of the wide-gaping chimney, seized upon
Jack's ready imagination with a force proportioned
to its novelty, and the idea it gave of the times in
which it was devised. He succeeded in penetrating
to it by the help of ah. old settle, which was found
in what had been a kitchen when the house was
last inhabited ; but however much his fancy re-
velled in the images suggested by its purpose and
its painful darkness, his sense of comfort convinced
him, without danger of controversy, that quieter
times, and hands less hard and ready to strike,
rendered life certainly as pleasant and not less
easy.
The next thing to be done was to return to the
river. Ned's practised eye had discovered its
capabilities at once, and he and Bob had been
congratulating themselves on the most favourable
condition of the water, which was probably due to
rain that had fallen during Sunday's storm on the
high grounds in which the river took its rise.
390 FISHING IN THE WHITADDER.
They determined to proceed farther up the stream
before commencing their sport, while Mr. Spencer,
who had been a scientific angler in the days of his
bachelorhood, accompanied Jack to the streams
below the ford at which they had passed. Pro-
ceeding some three-quarters of a mile or more, till
they passed beyond Whitehall, and came in sight
of the Allanton bridge, they commenced fishing,
and it was soon apparent that their panniers would
not return as empty as they had come.
Ned's first throw in a likely stream after wet-
ting and straightening his line a little above
raised two trout and hooked one. Bob was suc-
cessful in landing a trout within the first ten
minutes, and by the time they reached the foot of
the bank, at the summit of which stood Hutton
Hall, Ned had fifteen trout, and Bob five, in
their several baskets. Making their way down-
wards, with some difficulty, until they reached the
ford by Edington mill, they soon came in sight of
Mr. Spencer and Jack, about a quarter of a mile
ahead of them, but evidently not fishing. In fact,
their backs were to the water. Walking on, with
only an occasional cast or two in the " glorious
streams," as Ned justly called them, which greeted
the fisherman's eye wherever he looked on the river,
they reached their companions, and found them
busy mineralogising in a small way. They had
SKA-TROUT HOOKED. 391
been struck with the veins of a substance of deep
salmon-red colour, inclosing masses of a needly
white material, which abounded in the rocks
abutting on the river. Mr. Spencer pronounced
it to be gypsum, and curious specimens of the
same ; and, laying down rod and line, proceeded,
in the best way he could, with the spud from the
bottom of the rod and a stone from the bank, to
extract some pieces. It was not from want of
success with the angler's apparatus, though, that
this diversion had taken place. Bob saw this
clearly enough, for out of one side of his cousin's
fishing-basket stuck a fish's tail, betokening a
body, if it answered thereto, of alarming dimen-
sions.
Exclamations, questions, explanations ensued.
Jack had caught a trout or two, but possessing
little skill, had missed many, and was quite unable
to reach several most promising-looking casts.
He had therefore induced Mr. Spencer to take
his rod. He had done so, and had landed six or
seven nice trout ; when, throwing across a sort of
eddy caused by a submerged mass of rock, a slight
break of the water, followed by a resistance as if
he had hooked a log of wood, convinced him he
had got a big one to deal with. The little rod
he held quivered and sprung in his hand, as the
entangled fish leaped and rushed and spun round
392 FISHING IN THE WHITADDER.
here and there ; but rod, line, and steel were all
true, and after a short but sharp struggle
managed with all Mr. Spencer's former skill a
noble sea-trout, of six pounds' weight, was towed
into a little mimic bay, and, under Mr. Spencer's
directions, baled out, as it were, by Jack's two
hands placed beneath him. Mr. Spencer had then
raised another, which had jogged off with the fly ;
and he had then succeeded, after landing a good
trout in workmanlike way, in catching another, but
much smaller, sea-trout, in the stream terminating
in the pool, which lay about one hundred yards fur-
ther on. They were returning from this pool, which,
with the steep rock plunging down into its depths,
barred all further advance in that direction, in-
tending to climb the bank and proceeding above
the pool, descend again beyond it, when Jack's
eye was arrested by the gypsum veins, which
appeared here and there among the more solid
constituents of the bank.
"Well, you've got your work cut out," said
Ned, glancing up at the rocks and steep bank
above, which rose 120 or 130 feet above their
heads ; ' ( and I can't help thinking you will find
it the best plan to go back to yonder trees, and
get up among them. I can't carry you over,
or that would simplify matters ; but I'll manage
for Bob."
WILD EVERLASTING PEA. 393
Mr. Spencer accordingly retraced his steps for
about a quarter of a mile, and climbed the bank
and a steep climb it proved too, even where the
growing trees showed a continued acclivity while
Ned conveyed Bob over on his back, Bob having
charge of both fishing-rods. The steep bank
ceased on Mr. Spencer's side just beyond the pool
which had turned him back, and alternated to
Ned's side. There was, however, good fishing
ground a little below the pool ; but what pleased
Bob quite as much was to see a numerous colony
of martins' nests along the ledges of the rocks
above his head. Passing on a little further, Bob
found himself straying from the river-side into a
little clump of trees, which clothed a part of the
bank just opposite a mill, in which clump he was
delighted to find a species of everlasting pea grow-
ing, one or two flowers of which were just begin-
ning to disclose their rose-coloured petals. Mr.
Spencer, to whom he showed his specimens when
next they met, told him it was an undoubtedly
rare plant, and asked him to take great care of it.
The angling proceeded with varying success. From
Hutton Mill they went on and on, passing beneath
the pleasure-grounds of Broadmeadows, and reach-
ing another mill near a lately erected bridge,
below which they had some beautiful fishing for
nearly a quarter of a mile. Mr. Spencer's course
894 FISHING IN THE VVH1TADDER.
was again interrupted much in the same way as
before, by a deep pool with rocks dipping down
perpendicularly into it ; and out of the stream
rushing into this pool he succeeded in extracting
what, beyond dispute, was the trout of the day.
Ned and his brother next had a turn at climbing,
not very far below the point at which Jack and
Mr. Spencer had last ascended the bank. Work-
ing onwards, they reached Clarabad Mill, when
Mr. Spencer and Jack crossed over to the same
side with Ned and his brother, and still descend-
ing the course of the stream, came to a weir, the
water from which turned a mill-wheel, which
worked a very long spindle passing up and partly
through the steep bank ; and a little below this,
on rounding a corner, they saw a ruin on the sum-
mit of the hill above them. This, they had little
doubt, was Edrington Castle, as indeed it proved
to be. It was found now to be past four o' clock.
Their lunch had been taken where and when the
appetite of each prompted him to take his store
from his pocket, and they were beginning to be
quite sensible that there was no discomfort in
having to look forward to a more substantial meal
after their return to Eyemouth should have been
accomplished. So they decided to ascertain the
extent of their piscatory success, and then giving
a few minutes to the examination of the ruins
COUNTING THE CATCH. 395
if, on nearer approach, they seemed sufficiently in-
teresting to go forward to meet their conveyance,
if it should not as yet have arrived at the appointed
" meet." Ned's pannier, on being emptied, gave
up fifty-three trout, little and big, some of them
being fish of nearly a pound each. Bob's turned
out no less than seventeen, his skill having sus-
tained great improvement in the latter part of the
day ; while Jack's, with the help of Mr. Spencer's
two big ones, exhibited the noblest appearance of
all, having in all, besides the sea-trout, eight trout
caught by Mr. Spencer, and seven caught by himself.
A bare-headed, bare-legged, white-haired, dirty-
faced lassie oten, with a small brother of five, stood
by, superintending the counting ; and to her they
handed over all but about a score of the best trout
and the sea-trout, and laden with these they com-
menced the ascent to the Castle ruins. There was
but little to detain them. War and time, and the
exigencies of comparatively modern builders ot
houses and barns, had left but little of what was
once a strong place, sufficiently important to be
named in treaties between the potentates of the
rival kingdoms ; and passing on from what seemed
only capable of disappointing antiquarian interest,
they took the road to Edrington Toll. Passing a
short distance beyond this on the road from which
they had diverged in the morning, they met their
396 TO FAST CASTLE AND THE " DEANS."
cart near a point, by turning northwards at which
they could pass by a cross country road bad
enough, too, they found it into the Edinburgh
road, about a mile and a-half south-east of Ayton ;
from which point their journey to Eyemouth was
easily accomplished, and without much loss of time.
In due time, the largest sea-trout, boiled in collops
in sea- water, was smoking on the table vis-a-vis
with half-a-dozen of the burn trout, beautifully
cooked. After their meal, Bob, though sufficiently
tired, could not rest happy without a visit to the
patient and her baby, and found all going on well
there.
The next day, about nine o'clock, the whole
party might have been seen sailing out of the har-
bour in the best coble belonging to Eyemouth,
while Tom and his son were left in charge with
the preparations for a start southwards the day
after. Their boatman landed them at a point at
no great distance from Fast Castle, and from
which, by a scrambling climb, they could succeed
in reaching the ruins without going a great way
about. The site of the castle seemed to them even
more dreary and almost more isolated from the
world the foundations actually overhanging the
sea in one part than that of St. Abb's Nunnery.
What a gulf to cross, originally cut down in the
living rock nearly to the water-edge, before the
COCKBURNSPATH TOWER. 397
entrance to the fortalice could be won ! What an
awe-inspiring sight when the wild waves rioted
tumultuously in a fierce storm ! What warder
would be hardy enough, when the spirits of the
storm, careering forth, held wild revel round those
tremendous rocks and precipices ! Having suffi-
ciently wondered over these wild remains of rude
masonry and ruder times invested with a strange
fascination since Scottish genius had repeopled
those gloomy halls the travellers returned to their
boat, and sailed pleasantly on until they reached
the point at which Dunglass Dean debouched on
the shore. The boatman was to await their return
at the coast commencement of the Pease Dean,
where, after exploring Dunglass Dean up to, or a
little beyond the bridge, and thence passing to
Pease Dean, and descending it to the sea, they
would meet him at a given time. The romantic
beauty of the Dunglass Dean filled them with
admiring delight, and to such treasures as several
pieces of cornelian one an oval mass as big as a
large common fowl's egg they added, in the
Dean itself, two or three varieties of ferns by no
means common if, indeed, found at all in their
own neighbourhood among others, Grammitis
ceterach and a cloven specimen of hart's-tongue.
They looked in upon Cockburnspath Tower, recol-
lected how it had formed one of the difficulties
398 TO FAST CASTLE AND THE " DEANS."
which beset Oliver Cromwell before the Battle of
Dunbar, and how historical associations for six
centuries before that connected themselves with
this now little noticed, unimportant ruin. Pro-
ceeding onwards, they soon reached the Pease
Bridge, with its one arch, and the stupendous
elevation at which its crown rises above the bot-
tom of the dean or gully beneath : a sheer descent
of 150 feet ! But how to describe the wonderful
scenery of the Dean ! With steep banks, rising
to this height or greater, and clothed with trees
from the top to the bottom, totally intercepting
all sight of the stream below ! They rambled up
the Dean ; and, wearied as they were with yester-
day's walk and the difficulties and laborious nature
of their present scrambling expedition, it was with
unfeigned reluctance they turned their steps shore-
wards when Mr. Spencer at length declared they
had barely time left to keep their tryst. Jack and
Bob were so thoroughly tired, that, on reaching
the coble and getting her under sail, they fairly
fell asleep, and awoke, not a little refreshed, as
they passed the Barkers and hailed Tom Ling in
the " Blue," which was now at anchor in the
harbour, ready for starting the following morning.
It was decided to leave Eyemouth for the south
next morning, setting sail about nine o'clock ; to
go as far as the Fame Islands, and landing there,
GOOD-BYE TO EYEMOUTH. 399
to get such eggs as were known to abound in that
locality ; and afterwards to sail on through the
night, wind and weather permitting. Nor was it
in the intention of Mr. Spencer to put in again
anywhere, if the voyage could be continued with-
out unforeseen let and hindrance. The morning
was perfectly favourable in every way a good
working breeze from the north-west was blowing
and Tom was earnest in his auguries of a pros-
perous voyage. Before sailing, however, Mr,
Spencer with the lads paid their final visit to the
widow and her child, both of whom were prosper-
ing under the kind care of Mistress Dickson and
her daughter. She repeated her expressions of
thankfulness, as much for the kindness shown
her subsequently to the rescue, as for the rescue
itself; and was urgent with him to name a means
by which what he had advanced to her, or laid out
on her account, might be repaid to him. This he
did by naming the Seamen's Hospital at her
native place. She was to let him know how
things went with her as soon as she was well
enough to return thither; and, having taken a
kindly leave of her, and Bob a thoroughly affec-
tionate one of the child, they returned to the
lodgings for the last time, and went through the
miseries of a on Mrs. Alexander's part certainly
somewhat sorrowful parting.
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Not a few of -the fishermen were waiting to
have a farewell shake of the hand of the English
gentleman and his laddies ; and with many a
hearty good wish they left the beach and went on
board the "Blue," whose sails half-an-hour
since idly flapping in the wind were speedily
set, and herself directly after stretching out to
obtain sufficient offing to have the full advantage
of the wind. The run to the Fame Islands was
pleasantly and rapidly accomplished. With very
little loss of time, a sort of seaman-guide was in
attendance on them with a companion, and in-
structed by him they first landed on the House
Island. The chapels and the tower were inspected,
and the legends connected with them listened to
with very reverent attention by Jack. The Churn
also was visited, and the boys expressed their wish
to see it in operation a wish the owner of the
"True Blue" did not feel the least disposed to
indorse. It might be a very interesting sight to
a mainlander to see a column of water, which had
been forced through a long fissure partly arched
over, driven out of an orifice at its end to a height
of eighty or ninety feet ; but, for his own part,
before the storm with sufficient energy to accom-
plish this took place, he, Mr. Spencer, would pre-
fer being at a safe distance from these ugly look-
ing shores. Indeed, they were ugly looking to
THE FARNES. 401
one who was forced to contemplate the possibility
of rasping a hole in his ship's side or bottom, or,
worse still, going to utter smash against them ;
albeit, to others beautiful, or at least curious and
interesting enough, with their columnar-basalt
formation and separate pillar-like monoliths.
Bob, who had " got up" a little " cram" on the
subject of the Fames and their former inhabitants,
cowled and demoniacal, asked Jack if the picture of
imps " clad in cowls and riding upon goats, black
in complexion, short in stature, countenances
hideous, heads long, with brandished lances;"
little incommoded by the sign of the cross, but
sadly " put about" by a fortification of " straws
signed with the cross, and fixed in the sands," did
not come very home to his fancy?
Jack, as usual, bade him hold his tongue ; and
added ' ' And look for your eggs, which is about
as much as your fancy is good for."
Bob took the advice; and as they went from
island to island to see all, succeeded in obtaining
eggs of the eider duck, the Arctic tern, the rose-
ate tern, and the Sandwich tern. The eggs of the
guillemot, razor-bill, puffin, lesser black -backed and
herring gulls, with the kittiwake, cormorant, and
shag, might have been obtained in any quantity.
Hundreds on hundreds of these birds were seen
in all directions, and a most disagreeable smell
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102 SOUTHWARD HO !
greeted their nostrils on approaching the peculiar
territory of the cormorants, an island, namely, dis-
tinguished by the euphonious cognomen of North
Wamses. The eider ducks were as tame as the
gannets on the Bass, and our friends walked
among them without seeming to occasion them
any great disquiet.
Returning to the " Blue," after a most inte-
resting visit and which certainly was most
thoroughly enjoyed by all the party sail was
once more made, and the sloop's course directed
homewards. It almost appeared as if she had
home instincts like some bird of passage ; for she
bounded along over the waves, dashing up little
columns of spray every minute or two, in some of
which fragments of miniature rainbows were fanci-
fully painted. On and on they sped. Eight knots,
often exchanged for ten for an hour or two to-
gether and once, for a spell of nearly five hours,
her speed was estimated at eleven knots in the
hour hurried her happily on toward her goal.
Flamborough was passed ; and when at last they
retired to their locker beds for the night, they
were well down on the Lincolnshire coast. The
whole voyage was equally fortunate, and in some-
thing less than forty-two hours from the time at
which they had left Eyemouth including the
three or four hours they had spent at the Fames
HOME AGAIN. 403
the anchor was dropped once more in Hare-
borough Roads, and all hands, without exception,
fast asleep, though still on board.
At nine o' clock, or forty-eight hours after they
departed from Eyemouth, they were seated at Mr.
Spencer's breakfast-table, and Bob hastily impart-
ing to the eager Tay what they had seen, and done,
and enjoyed. After breakfast, the eggs were dis-
played; and Mrs. Spencer called for a full, true,
and particular account of the rescue, which termi-
nated with an inquiry from Tay whose wet eye-
lashes, though, rather contradicted her seeming
levity whether Bob thought of taking a situation
as nursemaid. " He might get such a high charac-
ter from his last place."
CHAPTER XIX.
At Hareborongh A Walk on the Marshes The Owlets A
Trawling Voyage Shrimps Wildfowl Shooting Afloat.
ALL the travellers were quite sufficiently wearied
with the exertions and excitements of the time
which had elapsed since they left Hareborough, to
be well content to appropriate the remainder of
the day of their return to resting themselves ; or,
at least, to such pursuit as required very little,
if any effort, bodily or mental. Tay and the lads
worked if work it could be called at the eggs
for the former's collection, and at identifying, and,
in one or two instances, by Hewitson's help,
correcting the nomenclature of the eggs obtained
from Jamie Grant. It was some pleasure too to
them, to make out which of them, in all probability
at least, had come from Norway, and which from
Iceland, or the Orkneys. This occupation, which
was carried on near a large window, opening down
to the ground into a verandah, and looking over
the fair garden in front and the beautiful calm sea
REMINISCENCES. 405
beyond, was often suspended for a time by the
deep interest both listener and narrator took in the
account of some part of the recent adventures and
experiences of the latter. Now it was the breath-
less anxiety with which the overhauling of the
boat with the poor woman in it was accompanied
in both the boys ; how they were breathless with
apprehension, lest some mischance or accident
might occur in what seemed to them so ticklish a
piece of business in that rough sea. How won-
derfully those seamen, who, to look at them, didn't
seem to promise such readiness and dexterity, had
managed it all ; and with such quickness, that
everything seemed to be done at once, instead of
in orderly succession. Then it was about the
porpoises, and how their blowing was not so very,
very different in tone from the sort of sigh which
burst from Ned's relieved bosom, when he heard
how the poor woman and her child were got safe
on board the " Blue ;" a comparison Mr. Ned
might have acknowledged in a very unceremonious
way, but that he was safely out of hearing distance,
lying on a garden-seat, under the shadow of some
noble evergreens, with a cigar in his mouth, and
deep in the interest of Two Years Ago. Again, it
was how they felt when rowing beneath St. Abb's
Head ; how, still more painfully even in body
they were at first affected by looking over the
406 AT HAREBOROUGH.
precipices ; what an awful sight the ocean pre-
sented the morning of the storm, with columns of
spray dashed up over the Harkers a hundred feet
high ; the wonderful beauty of the Deans, and the
most enjoyable trip to the Whitadder, with its
picturesque banks and glorious streams for the
fisherman.
At last the eggs were all properly cleaned, pre-
pared, and secured on their cards, with labels
affixed ; and the girl's delight was intense on look-
ing at the magnificent, miimagined addition made
to her cabinet. Her mother and sister both came
and participated in her pleasure. For really, the
suite of willocks' and razor-bills' eggs alone wert
so beautiful in shape, colours, and markings, as to
claim and receive as their right, a great deal of
admiration. And besides these, there were many
others of the additions singularly beautiful in
their tints and proportions. It was almost dinner-
time before the task of arrangement and labelling
was accomplished. After dinner, a walk was pro-
posed to the Little Hareborough Marshes; Ned
to take either his rifle or Mr. Spencer's gun, and
try for a few rabbits ; while the young ladies, with
one or both the lads, walked on along the sea-
wall which skirted a part of Longsea-roads. The
proposal was accepted by acclamation, and Ned,
on hearing the rabbit-shooting would be at sitting
RABBIT-SHOOTING WITH THE KIFLE. 407
rabbits, and many of them, if he managed well,
not thirty yards from him, decided to take his
rifle.
Passing by the quaint old church of Little
Hareborough, separated but by a field's length
from the marshes, they soon reached a point from
which the scene of Ned's exploits (to be) lay
clearly displayed. Two irregular-shaped mounds,
neither curvilinear nor straight-lined in outline,
about five feet above the general level of the
marshfes, and from forty to fifty yards in diameter,
showed even at the distance the walkers still were
from them in their broken surfaces and banks,
just such a locality as rabbits love to colonize.
Ned proceeded to avail himself of the concealment
afforded by a lane to make his approaches, and
then, the remaining distance of 150 yards between
himself and the rabbit-hills he set to work to get
over on the deer-stalker's principles ; the mean-
dering depressions of what had been the channels
of the sea-water before the marshes were reclaimed,
assisting him very materially in his enterprise.
While the rest of the party were passing at a dis-
tance of 300 or 400 yards above, they heard the
first crack of his rifle, and, by his proceeding
rapidly in the direction of the hill, they saw his
shot had been successful. Reloading, and con-
cealing himself in such a way as to allow him to
408 AT HAREBOKOUGH.
command the openings of several burrows from
twenty to fifty yards distant from him, he waited
patiently to shoot again. Nor had he to wait long.
A young rabbit and he purposed to kill no others
presented itself, after a few minutes spent by
him in watching, and fell dead without a struggle,
with a ball through the back of its neck. In ten
minutes more, four or five were seen about, or a
foot or two from, their burrows. Again the rifle
cracked, and another rabbit leaped up and fell
again, and, after a few convulsive kicks was still.
Leaving Ned, to follow his brother and cousin
and their companions, we find them at a point on
the sea-wall at which it was crossed by a tall sort
of stile- erection, looking intently down a broad
"fleet," which reached up broad and straight for
a distance of a quarter of a mile or more to this
very point. Annie was armed with her father's
double-glass, and her suppressed exclamation,
" What dear little creatures ! I hope that rifle-
shooting brother of yours, Bob, wont come thif
way and disturb them," convinces us that she is
looking at some sort of living creatures. Indeed,
it was a fleet of young wild ducks, with the old
one at their head, which, just as the walkers had
reached the marsh-bars, had emerged from the
tall reeds and flags which lined each side of the
fleet several feet deep, and were now scudding
Ned Rabbit Shooting. p. 408
MOOll BUZZARD. 409
about in every direction around their mother, not
a hundred yards distant from the spectators.
While the party were looking at these, seven
young coots appeared, nearer still, with both old
ones; and, at a much greater distance, another
family of the same birds were seen. All of the
young people in turn had brought the glass to
bear upon this interesting scene, when suddenly
the old duck, with a single loud, sharp quack, and
a sudden rush along the surface of the water, half
flying, half swimming, broke the stillness which
before prevailed; and, in an instant, her young
ones dived or such of them as were near enough
made for the covert of reeds. The coots, too, as
if understanding the old lady's warning, disappeared
to a bird, as if by magic ; the performance ending
by the submergence of the duck herself. All took
place so instantaneously, that there was no time
for anything more than Bob's sharp " Halloa \"
before the cause was apparent to their eyes, in a
large bird, which, with rather slow, smooth flight,
passed over the water only a few yards above it,
and was instantly recognised by Bob as the moor
buzzard, or bald-headed buzzard. The bird flew
steadily on, as watched by Bob, into an old decoy,
about a quarter of a mile distant, and perched
upon a low, rather spreading tree, at some little
distance from the enclosure. Bob continued
410 AT HAREBOROUGH.
watching him for some few seconds, and was rather
startled than otherwise to see a second bird of the
same species rise, as if from the ground about ten
yards to the right of the tree, and join its mate
therein. Bob's conclusion was, that there was a
nest there; and, communicating it to the two
girls and his cousin, mentioned his inclination to
go and look. They agreed to accompany him ;
and leading him to the entrance of the enclosure,
he soon managed for himself to reach, and then to
guide the party to the tree he had marked.
Two minutes' search revealed the existence of a
nest, not a yard distant from the bush from the
direction of which the other marsh-harrier had
seemed to Bob to rise. It was in the midst of a
clump of short reeds and other coarse herbage,
and contained four eggs, all of which were
straightway appropriated. The party now re-
turned; and as they left the bars, from which
they had watched the ducks and coots, they saw
Ned leaving the Rabbit Hills, and coming towards
them. Meeting him after about ten minutes'
walking, they heard he had succeeded in shooting
no less than eight young rabbits, from half to
three-quarters grown, having missed only one
shot. Retracing his steps to where he had left
his game, all of them had an opportunity of re-
marking on the anomalous nature of the mounds
THE RED-HILLS. 411
which afforded dwellings to the rabbits. The soil
all round was of a most tenacious clayey nature,
of a sort of dirty bluish hue. The soil of the hills
was red and friable, like burnt earth, or badly
made bricks fallen to pieces. How came it there ?
It must be due to some human original ; but what
was that original ? No one there present could
even guess.
Bob called upon Jack, as the acknowledged
archaeologist of the party, for an explanation.
Did he think the phenomenon under discussion
was of British origin or Roman ? or was it later
still?
Jack laughed, and said, " Oh ! it was only a
place where the Britons offered their wicker idols
full of human victims."
Whesn the question was referred to Mr. Spen-
cer, on their return, he said he was utterly unable
to account for the " Red-hills," as they were
locally called. He had no doubt that fire had
been the agent employed in producing the mate-
rial they were composed of; but the purpose of
the fire he could not surmise, nor had he ever
heard a reasonable explanation offered.
The next day, Sunday, passed quietly and
pleasantly over. A Mr. Earnshaw served both
Hareborough and Little Hareborough Churches ;
and the afternoon walk to the quaint little church
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on the marshes was pleasant enough to all parties.
As they were returning, Bob, who with Tay was
walking side by side with Mr. Spencer, said
" As I was getting up this morning I saw a
white owl flying as composedly as could be,
though the sun was shining as brightly as pos-
sible. I thought they never came out in the sun-
shine ?"
Mr. Spencer told him that when they had a
family to maintain, they both father and mother
had to work both late and early. "They
have," he continued, " a family to support just
now. While you were on the marshes last even-
ing, I sauntered on to the owl-tree in the church-
yard, and made my acquaintance with three quaint
young owlets, who constitute this year's family.
And very promising owlets, in the way of sapient
looks and wise faces, they appear to be."
What could Mr. Spencer mean, was BoVs
mental inquiry. " Had he climbed the tree, or
set a ladder to it and looked into the nest ?"
" Oh ! no," his host replied ; ' l nothing of the
sort. I only stood close underneath the tree for
twenty minutes or half-an-hour, during which
time the old owls made five visits to the tree,
with some prey or other in their claws for their
young ones; and the owlets had as often pre-
sented themselves at the verge of the hollow which
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contained the nest, and eyed him with the pecu-
liar wise-like, deliberative manner belonging to
them, rolling their heads and winking their eyes
like supernaturally sapient creatures."
Bob made an earnest entreaty that he might
have the tree pointed out to him.
" It was the second/' said Mr. Spencer, " from
the wicket gate at the corner of the piece of water
by the churchyard."
Bob took the first opportunity that presented
itself after, to station himself in the evening
beneath the tree, and remaining there for nearly
an hour and a-half, returned with his curiosity
greatly gratified. The hissings and snorings in
the tree he described as something wonderful,
particularly when the young owls, in some way
he was utterly at a loss to account for, had become
aware of the near approach of their father or
mother. Their rollings of the head, and winkings
of their goggle eyes to judge by his hearty laugh
as he recalled them were intensely funny ; and
their sudden start backwards and out of sight, if
he made an unguarded motion, had something
almost theatrical in it. He thought the old birds
returned on the average once in about five to
seven minutes. Almost every time, the prey
which seemed principally to be mice, or some
smaller objects still was brought in their claws,
414 AT HAREBOROUGH.
not in their bill. Their flight on these occasions
was directed to the church, about twenty yards
distant, and there, on its roof, transferred from
the claw to the bill, and so brought to the expec-
tant brood. They seemed to get it in turn, he
thought ; for he fancied, after he had been watch-
ing them for some time, he could distinguish
between the three young ones by a difference in
their size. The parent bird took little or no heed
of him, and went in and out much as if he had
not been there. The duration of these visits to
the tree seemed to be from half a minute to a
minute. Once one of them came with what
looked like a mole in its claw, and on going in to
the nest with this stayed a much longer time than
usual, a great deal of snoring and hissing being
the accompaniment of the prolonged stay. This,
he thought, might all be accounted for on the
supposition that the time of the old bird was occu-
pied in tearing up the larger specimen of prey for
the greater convenience of her young.
Mr. Spencer added to this, that he had often
seen the old birds begin at six in the evening their
accustomed huntings ; that they seemed to " beat"
the fields and hedgerows round ; and that it was
nothing strange to see them still at work the fol-
lowing morning as late as seven or eight
o'clock ; sometimes even later. To his know-
TRAWLING. 415
ledge they had bred in that tree a great number
of years.
The stay of the two lads was only to be prolonged
until the Wednesday, and Monday was to be given
to a sail in the " Blue/' with an interlude of trawl-
ing. Tay was to be of the party ; for she was an ex-
emplary sailor. Miss Spencer, who had tried trawl-
ing before, and found its effects unpleasant, declined.
Jack was warned, that with the wind there was, it
would be quite as bad as beating up for the boat off
Eyemouth; together with the addition of "strange,
fishy smells," every time the trawl was hauled in.
He would not be dissuaded from the expedition not-
withstanding. So they started. The sail to the
fishing ground was pleasant enough ; but when the
mainsail was brailed up, aud the boat began to
drag along, pitching and checked by the strain
of the tow-line of the trawl, a most uneasy motion
ensued ; and Jack soon had to shut his eyes in
self-defence. This preservative against sea-sick-
ness was not very valid, however, and just as they
were about to haul in the net the first time, Jack
was about to make his corresponding trip to the
leeward gunwale. However, interest in the ap-
proaching operation relieved him for the time,
and he saw the bag of fine meshed, but very
strong network, which terminated the long taper-
ing trawl, untied, and the contents emptied upon
416 AT HAREBOROUGH.
the decks : several soles, some plaice or flounders,
a few gurnards, two or three dog-fish, and a
variety of small crabs, with shells old and new,
and rubbish of various sorts. Bob was immensely
pleased to see a soldier-crab, or as Tom called
him " a farmer," occupying a large whelk, from
which its original constructor and inmate had
been by some means or other ousted. On look-
ing over the heap more closely, he saw several
creatures of this species. Jack in the interest
of the haul, had drawn near, but the unlucky
smell of the mass completely upset him, and he
was obliged, with remarkable abruptness, to
retreat to the side to indulge his woes there.
Another haul was made : and it proved even more
successful than the first in soles. Moreover, as
the net was brought up to the side, the meshes
were observed to be covered with countless almost
transparent creatures, which skipped off in hun-
dreds as the network was drawn above the surface
of the water. Numbers of them, however, were
so far entangled as not to get themselves liberated
before the net was hauled on board, and their
skips then only landed them on the deck. And
when the contents of the end bag were again
thrown out, the deck was perfectly alive with
these transparent skippers. All hands, except
Jack, who was past it, were called to capture
TAKE OP SHRIMPS. 437
these creatures shrimps, in short; and nearly
a quarter of a peck were put aside in a basket.
The trawl was lowered again, and suffered to
remain down only a short time, as the object only
was to add to the number of shrimps already taken.
And this was repeated twice again. The result was,
that nearly half a bushel of remarkably fine shrimps
were taken, and not a few of them boiled in the
cabin pot with sea- water before the " Blue"
returned to her anchorage. It was really a
beautiful sight ; the shrimps sparkled and looked
so fairy-like in the bright beams of the sun as
they leaped and dropped again to the water or the
deck; and even Jack himself, at last, was en-
gaged in the mirthful, almost uproarious, capture
of these small crustaceans.
But a rising wind, and a short chopping sea,
warnedMr. Spencer to give orders to " 'bout ship/'
and before they reached Hareborough Hard, the
sky was quite overcast, rain beginning to fall, and
a strong wind blowing. However, they reached
snug quarters before the rain became at all bad,
and they sat down to dinner in the hope that it
would be better weather before to-morrow their
last day at Hareborough when it had been pro-
posed to sail round to Wythernhoe, and look at a
very beautiful yacht in process of construction
there ; and thence to St. Oswald, where large and
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418 AT HAREBOROUGH.
well preserved conventual buildings would well
repay the time and trouble expended in visiting
them, alike by their own architectural and archae-
ological recommendations, and the beauty of the
coast and adjacent country. But it refused to
clear up in the evening. The wind had gone
down to be sure ; but the rain poured on in a very
persevering sort of way indeed. And when morn-
ing broke, the prospect was little, if at all,
amended. The party were consequently con-
strained perforce to give up the idea of going to
any distance from home.
Divers occupations were proposed, and all
seemed to settle down very well but Ned, who
strolled uneasily to the window, and back to his
seat, and then to the window again ; that is, after
the first hour of Two Years Ago. A hit or two
of backgammon with Annie Spencer beguiled
another hour away; but there was the great bit
of the day before dinner still to be got over some-
how. Luckily, Mr. Spencer came to the rescue
before very long, and asked Ned if he would like
to pay a visit to his arsenal. Ned jumped at the
idea, and the lads, too, were very eager to go,
though very happily occupied in working out
some ingenious contrivance for Tay's cotton-reels
and tapes. Accompanying Mr. Spencer into his
study, they saw him open a door at one corner
STANCHEON GUN. 419
which conducted into an apartment that could
hardly be said to be furnished, in the ordinary
sense. There were nets in it though, and guns ;
and a variety of articles, evidently belonging to
the equipment of the " True Blue," even down to
a new set of canvas for her. But what arrested
all eyes was a huge monster of a gun. The barrel
only was a foot taller than Ned, and he claimed
to be six feet all but an inch : her stock, a half-
shapeless lump of massive painted wood ; her bore,
big enough, as Bob found by experiment, to admit
one of the old-fashioned penny pieces. And near
this gun lay rammers and rods of proportionate
length and thickness, in orderly confusion. Other
guns there were of unusual dimensions, four feet six
inches in length from breech to muzzle, and
weighing ten to twelve, and one of them even
fifteen pounds. The other monster they ascer-
tained weighed 120 pounds, complete: while an
ordinary double-barrel only weighed seven and a
a half or eight pounds. Mr. Spencer explained
that the monster was his gun for shooting wild
fowl under sail. The others were flight guns,
used for shooting the same sort of birds as they
went out to feed by night, or returned in the early
morning to their places of daily resort. The
charge of the large gun was just one pound of
shot, generally of the largest description, and an
420 AT HAREBOROUGH
equal quantity, by measure, of coarse powder.
" But how did he manage to shoot with it ?" In
reply, he bade them observe that there was an iron
appendage, with a bolt passing through the stock,
allowing very free play in a vertical direction, if
the gun were supported in the ordinary position
for firing ; that the lower part of this iron was a
cylinder of nearly an inch in diameter, which if it
were inserted into a fixed socket of corresponding
size, would allow horizontal motion to any extent ;
and that a socket of this description, or rather
four of them, did actually exist in a rather curved
beam of wood he pointed out, fully seven inches
square at each end, and about five feet long.
This beam, he explained, was placed across the
half-deck of the " Seafowl," the boat, namely,
which he had shown them yesterday, lying in
ordinary, a little above the " Blue " its two ends
were very strongly lashed to the foot of the mast,
but at such a distance aft, that the gun, when
mounted, had free play on either side, and was
within convenient distance of the shooter who
stood behind the small enclosed cabin. So
mounted, he said, the big gun was almost as
easily directed and aimed with as a heavy ish
shoulder gun. The whole party, he added, must
pay him a visit next winter and try the sensations
of a cruise after wildfowl. Bob wished it was
FLIGHT SHOOTING. 421
winter at once ; but did not find a very ready
echo from Jack, when Mr. Spencer said they often
had a little sea to encounter, and had to go
through every possible sailing evolution, in order
to work up so as to get a shot at a lot of fowl.
Ned now asked some questions about flight-shoot-
ing. Mr. Spencer said it used to be much better
than it was now, since the decoy ponds had almost
all fallen into disuse. He had often seen from
one hundred to five hundred couple of fowl
ducks, widgeon, dunbird principally on the wing
in the course of one evening, or early morning's
shooting; and had sometimes, with the help of
his old black retriever " Nep," secured from three
to seven couple of those birds. Sometimes three
or four or five would fall to a shot. The bars, at
which they had observed the young wild ducks
the other evening, was a favourite post of his ; and
once he had been at the Point with only his
heaviest double-barrel gun, and had bagged a
double shot at white-fronted geese. Often he
had ' ' walked the saltings," by which he meant
crossing them, rills and creeks as they came, in
such directions as to be able to come upon
favourite feeding places of wildfowl or shore-birds,
without being too soon seen by them. He then
enumerated the different kinds of birds he had
shot from the shore, either at flight or when walk-
422 AT HAREBOROUGH.
ing the saltings : curlews, herons, whimbrel, red-
shanks, greenshanks, bar-tailed godwit, dunlin,
ringed plover, grey plover, black goose (once or
twice only, and those probably wounded birds),
grey goose, white -fronted goose, wild duck, widgeon,
dunbird, teal, pintail, golden eye, scaup duck, goos-
ander, two of the grebes, snipe, jack-snipe and wild
swan ; these last, and the geese, always as they
happened to be passing over. More than once, he
had had a fight with a wing'd heron or curlew :
one of the latter birds had, with apparent inten-
tion, scooped mud up and thrown it at him with its
sound wing ; while a heron was really a dangerous
assailant to one who was not aware that it would
strike at .the eye, if it had the opportunity ; and
a dig with its sharp bill, even on the cheek, would
not be exactly a joke. Afloat, he said, he had
killed several other varieties of birds besides those
named; such as scoters, coots, some rarer grebes,
several of the divers, and two or three additional
species of ducks.
Ned, seconded by Bob, as the rain still con-
tinued falling quite hopelessly, begged Mr. Spencer
to give them an account of his proceedings in a
wildfowl-shooting cruise, if he had no occupation
calling for his time and thought.
Mr. Spencer complied, but instead of repeating
what he described to them, we prefer giving an
THE CRUISE BEGUN. 423
account of such a cruise, actually taken by Ned
and his brother the next winter, as the latter
described it to his cousin when they next met.
" It was the morning after Christmas Day/' he
began, " and a sharpish frost I can tell you. We
were up and got our breakfast by candlelight;
and then cut down to the ' Seafowl' as quick as we
could. We found Tom Ling had got everything
ready for us, and it was, ' All hands up anchor,
and make sail/ as soon as ever we got aboard.
We were away, and out beyond the guard-ship^
before it was light enough to see to shoot. Ned took
a longish shot though, at a long line of curlews,
which crossed us when about a mile out, and got
one ; which we picked up as we passed, scarcely
altering the boat's course for it. Young Tim was
up a little bit in the rigging, and about ten
minutes after Ned's shot, when we could now see
pretty clearly to a good distance, and the sun was
just rising over the broad sea oh ! so beautifully,
Jack he called out he could see a lot of geese on
the starboard bow. He thought there might be
about a score of them. Tom thought we could
'fetch' them as we were then ; and so, we ' went at'
them. We had to sail so near the wind that we
only got along slowly, but at last I got a good look
at them, along the side of the companion ; though
both Ned and I were told to keep ourselves as
424 WILDFOWL-SHOOTING AFLOAT.
still as possible, and not let even our heads be
seen if we could help it. But we were not to
have a shot at them ; for they got up while we
were still a long way off, and flew so scatteredly
Mr. Spencer would not fire at them. We then
let her fall off until she was almost before the
wind, and our look-out presently warned us of a
great flock about half a mile ahead of us, but on
our right hand: 'rather wide on our starboard bow/
he said. His father and Mr. Spencer both made
them out, and it was agreed that the best plan
would be to gibe at once and sail straight at them.
Ned was armed with a flight-gun, and his own
double-barrel ; and there was a single gun of Mr.
Spencer's, which he said I might use when he had
time to attend to me himself." Jack here inter-
rupted his friend, saying he had supposed Mr.
Spencer was the person to shoot with the great
gun that he had seen ; what had Ned to do with
guns then ? Bob answered that the big gun was
there and Mr. Spencer at it ; the only trouble with
it, being to shift it from one side to, the other
according to the tack they were on; it being
always used indeed it was not possible to use it
otherwise than on the side of the boat on which
the wind blew ; but the use of the other guns was,
that, at almost every shot, one or more birds
would only be winged ; and sometimes there were
A SHOT WITH THE BIG GUN. 425
four or five such birds, swimming and diving in
as many different directions : these had to be
shot with the common guns. " Well/' continued
Bob, after this explanation, ' ' we could all of us see
the great flock some time before we got near
them. Their white rumps showed very distinctly
in the clear light over the sea, and presently we
could make out their heads. We came within
200 yards, sailing steadily and rather fast ; within
150. Then they began to draw together, which
we knew meant that they were preparing for flight.
Guess how my heart went pit-a-pat; and Ned's
was no better, he said afterwards. We saw them
face round against the wind ; and then opening
their wings, after flapping along three or four
yards on the surface of the water, fairly get into
flight. The next moment the roar of the big gun
fell on the ears. Up we jumped to see what effect
the shot produced. We saw a lot of pellets skip-
ping along the water before they reached the geese;
and then down came four or five geese, we could
not see how many. Fifty or sixty yards further
on, down tumbled another, and then another.
" -'Look out, Tim/ sung out Mr. Spencer,
' there'll be some more turn out yet/
"And sure enough, after flying nearly 200
yards, I saw another turn out of the rout, and
turn regularly over and drop down; dead, it
426 WILDFOWL-SHOOTING AFLOAT.
seemed. And Tim presently marked another.
By this time we were drawing close to the dead
and wounded birds. Two we saw making off in
one direction, apparently not much the worse
except their broken wings and a third in another;
besides three which did not move at all, or only
just.
" ' Here Bob/ cried Mr. Spencer, handing me
a large silk landing-net affair on a brass ring,
socketed into a short handle, ' lay hold, and scoop
up those two dead birds as we pass ; and the third
too, if you can reach it. You will be in time for
a shot still/
' ' ' Ned/ he said, ' give that far chap the charge
out of the flight gun as soon as you are within
reach ; I can manage the other/
" Just as I got all three of the birds I had
charge to secure safe, I heard the two reports ;
and then Mr. Spencer ordering Tom to luff.
" 'Now Bob/ said he, putting the little gun
into my hand, ' it is your turn ; don't be in a
hurry take a steady aim at its head and neck,
and let go any time/
" I did as I was bid, and just fancy how pleased
I was as the old goose turned right over when I
shot, and kicked his legs out of water for an in-
stant or two. Next, after picking these up, we
had to go about to fetch the two that had fallen
DUCKS. 427
together a little after the rest. One of these was
dead ; the other had swum out a long way. We
soon had the dead one, and were after the living
chap. Ned quieted him with a charge from the
double.
" Then said Mr. Spencer, ' Now for the other
two. Where are they, Tim ?'
" We had been twisting and turning all ways
for the last ten minutes, and I didn't know the
least where our head was, or our tail either ; but
Tim seemed to know by instinct, for he said in a
moment,
" ' There's one hereaway, and the other out
more to the west/
"So we worked up in time, and without much
difficulty found both. Ten geese to pay for one
discharge of the big gun ; pretty well, eh, Jack ?
We were now ready to start off on another hunt.
Every now and then we heard geese at a distance,
making something such a noise, as they flew, as a
pack of hounds in full cry. I was watching a
small string of 'em, which were flying along some
way off us, when I heard Mr. Spencer say sharply,
but not shouting, to Ned,
" ' Look out ! here come seven ducks. Keep
your head still, and it may be they'll come within
shot of us. Keep her steady, Tom/
" ' Ay ay, sir/ he replied.
428 WILDFOWL-SHOOTING AFLOAT.
" Sure enough they did come within shot, and
close enough for Mr. Spencer to work both barrels
of his double upon them, bringing down one with
each. Ned took his opportunity, as the remaining
ones rather doubled on one another in their fright,
and floored two more. I shot one of these in the
water, after missing it twice in consequence of its
diving so quick. We were scarcely ready for
work again, when Tom Ling pointed out a lot of
birds on the water, no distance off hardly.
" 'Why, Tom, they're widgeon/ said Mr.
Spencer.
" ' No, sir, I think they're dunbird. Why, we
are in shot of 'em now.'
" ' Well,' says Mr. Spencer, ' I can't draw my
charge, and put in smaller shot. I'll let go at
them as they rise.'
' ' And rise they did, nearly thirty of them, and
five fell again too ; and a precious piece of work
we had with one of them ; I think we fired ten
shots before we got him. After this we did not
see a lot anywhere for some little while ; but Tim,
after a few minutes, said to his father
" ' There's a dead 'un out there, I lay.'
" Looking in the direction he indicated, we saw
several gulls evidently all busy about some object
on the water.
" ' We'll go and have a look,' said Mr. Spencer ;
GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL. 429
and so Tom steered for the assemblage. Almost
all of tliem flew off as we came near ; but one
noble fellow a great black-backed gull kept on,
working away until we came within about sixty
yards. Says Ned, as this fellow, too, seemed to
think it was getting time to make himself scarce,
' I'll give you my cartridge, old fellow.'
" Down he tumbled, but it was clear he wasn't
much hurt ; for he began to work away with his
feet at a great rate. However, the ' SeafowT
was swifter than he, and we soon overhauled him.
Ned was going to seize him with his naked hand.
" ' Hold hard, sir,' cried Tom, energetically,
' or he'll have a bit of your hand off, as sure as a
gun. Give him a tap on his head with that rod,
and then pick him up.'
' ' No sooner said than done. Just as we had got
him in and stowed him away carefully for stuffing,
up popped a little auk right under our stern, and
there it sat, as impudent as could be, looking at
us. Mr. Spencer wouldn't let us shoot it, it looked
so tame. Our look-out's voice was now again
heard, and we laid our course for the new lot of
geese he had discovered. But we were not to get
a shot at them either ; for, after working half-way
up to them, Tom who was as steady at the helm
as if built in there touched Mr. Spencer with a
loading rod that lay handy, and pointed in a
430 WILDFOWL-SHOOTING AFLOAT.
different direction from that in which all eyes
were gazing.
<f 'By Jove, Tom, they'll cross our forefoot.
Let her fall off three points, and keep her so.'
" Ned and I saw now what it was that occasioned
this change in tactics. We saw five huge white
birds coming, steadily and rapidly along, at no
great height from the water. We knew at once
they could be nothing else but swans. Their
course and ours were, it was plain even to me,
converging ; and it was soon evident that, if they
kept on a little longer, they would cross in front
of us, not more than 150 yards away. They kept
on, and so did we.
" ' Steady, Tom ; luff a little/ said the skipper,
just so as to be heard by Tom ; and the moment
these words were out of his mouth, Mr. Spencer
who had had his cheek on the stock, following
every motion of the swans with the gun for the
last minute saw his time was come. The leading
bird, finding himself nearer to the boat than he
had calculated on or liked, swerved from his
course, and partly from this cause, and partly
from the slight alteration in the boat's course
produced by Tom's obedience to his master's in-
structions to luff, the second bird was almost in a
line with him as Mr. Spencer took his sight and
fired. One fell on the instant; the other flew
GREAT NORTHERN DIVER. 431
about a hundred yards, then threw his long head
and neck up vertically into the air, soared up per-
pendicularly about twenty yards, and turning over
backwards, fell perfectly dead into the sea. We
had no trouble in picking these up ; and just as
we had done so, Tom said to Ned
" ' Look yonder, sir. There's a great northern
diver. Nay, sir; don't shoot yet. He'll fly,
maybe ; and it'll be a deal easier to shoot him
flying.'
" Sure enough he did fly, and Ned precious
soon tumbled him over. But it was half-an-hour
before we got him. I never saw such a chap to
dive. He kept under a minute at a time, and
just came up and was down again, almost before
you could fix your eye on him. Ned fired five
shots at him, all in vain.
" Mr. Spencer said at last, ( I think I must help
you,' and by firing at him at random every time
and the very instant he showed himself above the
water, at last he was obliged by exhaustion to
remain above rather longer, and it was I who
finished him off. He came up nearer to the boat
than he meant ; but I was lucky enough to kill
him before he could dive again. Such a beauty,
in full plumage; and he weighed full twelve
pounds, we found afterwards. Next we had a bit
of a chase after a seal ; but he was quite too wide
432 WILDFOWL-SHOOTING AFLOAT.
awake for us, diving so quickly that Mr. Spencer
never could succeed in getting the big gun to bear
upon him. The next shot we had was at a precious
lot of geese, but a long way off. Only four fell ;
but two of the others doubled back out of the
flock, and Ned got one, and Mr. Spencer the
other with their small guns. We had another jolly
cripple chase now, and, after all, lost one of our
cripples ; but Mr. Spencer let me shoot the other.
" The speckled divers, and two or three sorts of
grebes were all round us. Tom called the former
spratborers. I shot one of them, Jack ; flying too :
and wasn't I proud of it ? I think I never had such
a jolly day in my life and such a ' bag 5 we had. 1
wonder what Banks or Jem Watt would say if he
had to carry such a one ! Two swans, twenty-seven
black geese, seven ducks, four dunbird, a widgeon,
two teal, and two curlews, besides the divers and
gull. And to end all, just before we sailed
in in the afternoon, Mr. Spencer fired the big
gun into a lot of scoters and killed three : and
Ned got a crack at some redshanks, and got two ;
and I let fly into a large lot of ox-birds, as Tom
called them, that rose off a mud bank as we
passed it. And how many do you think I pep-
pered ? No less than seventeen. There were only
Mr. Spencer's double-gun and the two flight guns
loaded now, and it was getting quite dusk; but
OUR CRUISE ENDED. 433
the very minute Tom had let down the anchor,
about a dozen ducks flew right over our heads
from the sea. I heard them coming, and told
Mr. Spencer, and so he and Ned were ready; and
they got three of them, one of which fell on the
mud, and was waddling down into the water, when
Mr. Spencer told me to shoot it with his left
barrel, which I did ; and so ended the cruise."
We must now take leave of our friends Bob and
Jack at least for the present. On the day fol-
lowing the rainy one last mentioned, they left
Mr. Spencer's, and travelling together as far as
London, parted there, not to meet again till nearly
a month later at Elmdon. Bob and his brother
returned home ; and Bob often said afterwards,
that these were the pleasantest holidays he had
ever known. Whether we ever hear any more of
the experiences and proceedings of Masters Bob
and Jack must depend on you, our school-boy
readers, to whom now we wish a hearty farewell,
and good speed in all such undertakings as Bob's
and Jack's.
THE END.
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ABERDEEN JOURNAL. "The popularity of the 'Forty Years' will
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children, it was impossible for a man whose memory is full charged with lore and
legend to write on such themes without interesting their elders. "
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PAGE
ABBEY (E. A.) . . .37
ATTWELL (H.) . . 20
BERNARD (J. H.) . . 25,
ABBOT (F.E.) ... 33
AUSTIN (Alfred) . 14
BERNARD (M.) . . .12;
ABBOTT (Rev. E.) 3,13,30,31,33
AUTENRIETH (Georg) . 7
BERNERS (J.) . . .11
AcLAND(Sir H. W.). . 22
AWDRY (F.) . . .38
BESANT (W.) ... 4
ADAMS (Sir F. O.) . . 28
BACON (Francis) . 19, 20
BETHUNE-BAKER (J. F.) . 3-5
ADAMS (Herbert B.). . 28
BAINES (Rev. E.) . . 33
BETTANY (G. T.) . . 6
ADDISON . . . 4, 20
BAKER (Sir S. W.) 28, 30, 37, 38
BlCKERTON (T. H.) . . 22-
AGASSIZ (L.) ... 3
BALCH (Elizabeth) . . 12
BlGELOw(M. M.) . . 12
AINGER(RCV. A.) 4, 16, 20, 33
BALDWIN (Prof. J.M.) . 26
BlKELAS(D.) ... 17
AINSLIE (A. D.). . . 14
BALFOUR (Rt. Hon. A. J.) 2S
BiNNiE(Rev. W.) . . 35
AIRY (Sir G. B.) . 2, 27
BALFOUR (F. M.) . . 5, 6
BIRKS (T. R.) . 6, 25, 30, 33
AITKEN (Mary C.) . . 20
BALFOUR (J. B.) . . 6
BjORNSON (B.) . . .17
AITKEN (Sir W.) . . 23
BALL(V.). ... 38
BLACK (W.) ... 4
ALBEMARLE (Earl of) . 3
BALL(W.Platt) . . 6
BLACKBURNE (E.) . . j
ALDRICH (T. B.) . 14
BALL(W. W. R.) . . 22
BLACKIE (J.S.) . 9, 14, 19
ALEXANDER (C. F.) . . 20
BALLANCE (C. A.) . . 22
BLAKE (J. F.) . . . 2-
ALEXANDER (T.) . . 8
BARKER (Lady) . 2, 8, 37
BLAKE (W.) ... 3
ALEXANDER (Bishop) . 33
BARNARD (C.) . . . 27
BLAKISTON(J.R.) . . ft
ALLBUTT (T. C.) . . 22
BARNES (W.) ... 3
BLANFORD(H. F.) . 9127
ALLEN (G.) ... 6
BARRY (Bishop). . . 33
BLANFORD (W. T.) . 9, 24
ALLINGHAM (W.) . . 20
BARTHOLOMEW (J. G.) . 3
BLOMFIELD (R.) . . 9
AMIEL(H. F.) ... 3
BARTLETT (J.) ... 7
BLYTH(A.W-). . . ir
ANDERSON (A.). . . 14
BARWELL (R.) . . .22
BOHM-BAWERK (Prof.) . 28
ANDERSON (Dr. McCall) . 22
BASTABLE (Prof. C. F.) . 28
BOISSEVAIN (G. M.) . . 28:
ANDREWS (Dr. Thomas) . 26
BASTIAN (H. C.) . 6, 22
BOLDREWOOD (Rolf ). . If
APPLETON (T. G.) . . 37
BATESON (W.) ... 6
BONAR (J.) . . . 28
ARCHER-HIND (R. D.) . 36
BATH (Marquis of) . . 28
BOND (Rev. J.). . . 31
ARNOLD, M. 8,14,19,20,21,30
BATHER (Archdeacon) . 33
BOOLE (G.) . . .26
ARNOLD (Dr. T.) . . 9
BAXTER (L.) . . . ' 3
BOUGHTON (G. H.) . . 37
ARNOLD (W. T.) . . 9
BEESLY (Mrs.) ... 9
BOUTMY (E.) . . . 1
ASHLEY (W. J.). . . 3
BENHAM (Rev. W.) . 5, 20, 32
BOWEN (H. C.) . . . 25
ATKINSON (J. B.) . . a
BENSON (Archbishop) 32, 33
BOWER (F. O.) . . .6.
ATKINSON (Rev. J. C.) i, 38
BERLIOZ (H. . . 3
BRIDGES (J. A.). . . ig>
INDEX.
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PAGE
BRIGHT (H. A.). . . 9
CLARKE (C. B.). . 9, 28
DlLLWYN (E. A.) . . I?
BRIGHT (John) . . 28, 29
CLAUSIUS (R.) . . .27
DOBSON (A.) ... 4
BRIMLEY(G.) . . -19
BRODIE (Sir B. C.) . .7
CLIFFORD (Ed.) . . 3
CLIFFORD (W. K.) . 19, 26
DONALDSON (J.) . . 33.
DONISTHORPE (W.) . . 29
BRODRIBB(W. J.) . 13,37
CLIFFORD (Mrs. W. K.) . 38
DOWDEN (E.) . . 4, 13, 15
BROOKE (Sir J.) . . 3
CLOUGH (A. H.) . 14, 19
DOYLE (Sir F. H.) . . 14
BROOKE (S. A.) 13, 14, 21, 33
COBDEN (R.) . . .29
DOYLE (J. A.) . . .10
BROOKS (Bishop) . . 33
COHEN (J. B.) . . .7
DRAKE (B.) . . .36
BROWN (A. C.) . . . 26
COLENSO (J. W.) . . 32
DRUMMOND(Prof. J.) . 34
BROWN (J. A.) . . . i
COLERIDGE (S. T.) . . 14
DRYDEN .... 20
BROWN (Dr. James) . . 4
COLLIER (Hon. John) ,- f ! . f ;
Du CANE (E. F.) . . 29
BROWN (T.E.) ... 14
COLLINS (J. Churton) . 19
DuFF(SirM.E.Grant) 20,29,37
BROWNE (J. H. B.) . . n
COLQUHOUN (F. S.) . . 14
DUNSMUIR (A.). . . 17
BROWNE (Sir T.) . . 20
COLVIN (Sidney) . 4, 20
DUNTZER (H.) . . . 4, 5
BROWNE (W. R.) . . 27
COMBE (G.) ... 8
DUPRE(A.) ... 7
BRUNTON(Dr.T.Lauder)22,33
CONGREVE (Rev. J.) . . 33
DYER.(L.). . . . X
BRYCE (James) . . 9, 28, 37
CONWAY (Hugh) . . 17
EADIE (J.). . . 4, 30, 31
BUCHHEIM (C. A.) . . 20
COOK (E. T.) . . .2
EASTLAKE (Lady) . . 32
BUCKLAND (A.). . . 5
COOKE (C. Kinloch) . . 24
EBERS (G.) ... 17
BUCKLEY (A. B ) . . .9
COOKE(J.P.) . . 7,34
EDGEWORTH (Prof. F. Y.). 28
BUCKNILL (Dr. J.C.) . 22
BUCKTON (G. B.) . . 40
CORBETT (J.) . . 4, 17, 38
CORFIELD (W. H.) . . II
EDMUNDS (Dr. W.) . . 22
EowARDS-Moss(Sir J. E.) 30
BUNYAN . . .4, 19, 20
CORRY (T. H.) . . .6
EIMER(G. H.T.) . . 6
BURGON(J.W.) . . 14
COTTERILL(J.H.) . . 8
ELDERTON (W. A.) . . 9)
BURKE (E.) . . . 28
COTTON (Bishop) . . 34
ELLERTON (Rev. J.) . . 34
BURN (R.). ... i
COTTON (C.) . . ..12
ELLIOT (Hon. A.) . . 29
BURNETT (F. Hodgson) . 17
COTTON (J. S.) . . . 29
ELLIS (T.). . . HgB
BURNS . . .14, 20
COUES (E.) . . .40
EMERSON (R. W.) . 4, 20
BURY(J. B.) ... 9
CouR'i.iOFE (W. J.) . . 4
EVANS (S.) . . .14
BUTCHER (Prof. S. H.) 13,19,36
COWELL(G.) . . .23
EVERETT (J. D.) . . 26
BUTLER (A. J.). . . 37
COWPER . . . .20
FALCONER (Lanoe) . . 17
BUTLER (Rev. G.) . . 33
Cox(G.V.) ... 9
FARRAR (Archdeacon) 5,30,34
BUTLER (Samuel) . . 14
CRAiK(Mrs.)i4, 17, 19, 20, 37, 38
FARRER(SirT. H.) . . 29
BUTLER (W. Archer) . 33
CRAIK (H.) . . 8, 29
FAULKNER (F.). . . 7
BUTLER (Sir W. F.) . . 4
CRANE (Lucy) 2, 39
FAWCETT (Prof. H.) . 28, 29
BYRON . . . .20
CRANE (Walter) . 39
FAVVCETT (M. G.) . 5, 28
CAIRNES (J. E.) . . 29
CRAVEN (Mrs. D.) . .8
FAY (Amy) . . .24
CALDECOTT (R.) .12, 38, 39
CRAWFORD (F. M.) . . 17
FEARNLEY(W.) . . 27
CALDERWOOD (Prof. H.)
CREIGHTON (Bishop M.) 4, 10
FEARON (D. R.) . .8
8, 25, 26, 33
CRICHTON-BROWNE(SirJ.) 8
FERREL(\V.) . . .27
CALVERT (Rev. A.) . . 31
CROSS (J. A.) ... 30
FERRERS (N. M.) . . 27
CAMERON (V. L.) . . 37
CROSSLEY (E.) ... 2
FESSENDEN (C.) . . 26
CAMPBELL (J. F.) . . 37
CROSSLEY (H.) . . .37
FiNCK(H.T.) ... i
CAMPBELL (Dr. J. M.) . 33
GUMMING (L.) . . .26
FISHER (Rev. O.) . 26, 27
CAMPBELL (Prof. Lewis) 5,13
CUNNINGHAM (C.) . . 28
FISKE(J.). 6, 10, 25, 29, 34
CAPES (W.W.). . . 13
CUNNINGHAM (Sir H.S.). 17
FISON(L.). ... i
CARLES (W. R.) . . 37
CUNNINGHAM (Rev. J.) . 31
FITCH (J.G.) ... 8
CARLYLE (T.) ... 3
CUNNINGHAM (Rev. W)3i, 33,34
FITZ GERALD (Caroline) . 14
CARMARTHEN (Lady) . 17
CUNYNGHAME (Sir A. T.) . 24
FITZGERALD (Edward) 14,20
CARNARVON (Earl of) . 36
CURTEIS (Rev. G. H.) 32, 34
FITZMAURICE (Lord E.) . 5
CARNOT (N. L. G.) . . 27
DAHN (F.) ... 17
FLEAY(F. G.) ... 13
CARPENTER (Bishop) . 33
DAKYNS (H. G.) . . 37
FLEISCHER (E.). . . 7
CARR(J.C-) ... 2
DALE(A.W.W.) . . 3*
FLEMING (G.) ... 17
CARROLL (Lewis) . 26, 38
DALTON (Rev. J. N.) . . 37
FLOWER (Prof. W. H.) . 39
GARTER (R. Brudenell) . 23
DANTE . . .3, 13, 37
FLOCKIGER(F.A.) . . 23
CASSEL (Dr. D.) . .9
DAVIES (Rev. J. LI.). 20, 31, 34
FORBES (A.) . . 4, 37
CAUTLEY (G. S.) . . 14
CAZENOVE (J.G.) . . 33
DAVIES(W.) ... 5
DAWKINS(W. B.) . . i
FORBES (Prof. G.) . . 3
FORBES (Rev. G. H.) . 34
CHALMERS (J- B.) . . 8
DAWSON (G. M.) . . 9
FOSTER (Prof. M.) . 6,27
CHALMERS (M. D.) . . 29
DAwsoN(SirJ. W.) . . 9
FOTHERGILL (Dr. I. M.) 8,23
CHAPMAN (Elizabeth R.) . 14
DAWSON (j.) ... i
FOWLE (Rev. T. W.). 29, 34
CHASSERESSE (Diana) . 30
DAY(L. B.) ... 17
FOWLER (Rev. T.) . 4, 25
CHERRY (R. R.) . . 12
DAY (R. E.) . . .06
FOWLER (W-W.) . . 24
CHEYNE (C. H. H.) . .2
DEFOE (D.) . . 4, 20
Fox (Dr. Wilson) . . 23
CHEYNE (T. K.) . . 30
DEIGHTON (K.). . . 15
FOXWELL (Prof. H. S) .a*
CHRISTIE (J.) . . .23
CHRISTIE (W. D.) . . 20
DELAMOTTE (P. H.). . a
DELL (E.G.) ... 12
FRAMJI (D.) . . .10
FRANKLAND(P. F.) . . i
CHURCH (Prof. A. H.) . 6
DE MORGAN (M.) . . 39
FRASER (Bishop) . . 34
CHURCH (Rev. A. J.) 4,30,37
DE VERB (A.) . . 20
FRASER-TYTLER (C. C.) . 14
CHURCH (F. J.). . 20,37
DICEY (A. V.) . . 12, 29
FRAZER (J.G.) . . i
CHURCH (Dean) 3,4,13,19,31,33
CLARK (J. W.) ... 20
DICKENS (C.) . . 5, 17
DIGGLE (Rev. J. W.). . 34
FREDERICK (Mrs.) . . 8
FREEMAN (Prof. E. A.)
CLARK (L.) ... 2
DILKE (Ashton W.) . . 19
2, 4, 10, 29, 32
Cl.ARK(S.) ... 3
DILKE (Sir Charles W.) . 29
FRENCH (G. R.) . . 13
INDEX.
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FRIEDMANN (P.) . . 3
HARRISON (Miss J.) . . i
JONES (F.). ... 7
FROST (A. B.) ... 38
HARTE (Bret) . . . 17
KANT . . . . aj
FROUDE (J. A.). . . 4
HARTIG (Dr. R.) . . 6
KARI . . . -39
FULLER-TON (W. M.) . 37
HARTLEY (Prof. W. N.) . 7
KAVANAGH (Rt. Hn.A.M.) 4
FURNISS (Harry) . . 38
HARWOOD (G.) . .21, 29, 32
KAY(RV. W.). . . 31
FURNIVALL (F. J.) . . 14
HAYES (A.) . . .14
KEARY (Annie). 10,18,39
FYFFE (C. A.) . . . 10
HEADLAM (W.). . . 36
KEARY (Eliza) ... 3.9
FYFE(H. H.) ... 9
HELPS (Sir A.) . . .21
KEATS . . .4, 20, 21
GAIRDNER (I.) ... 4
HEMPEL (Dr. W.) . . 7
KELLNER (Dr. L.) . . 25
GALTON (F.) . . i, 27
HERODOTUS . . .36
KELLOGG (Rev. S. H.) . 34
GAMGEE (Arthur) . . 27
HERRICK . . . .20
KEMPE(A. B.) . . . 26
GARDNER (Percy) . . x
HERTEL(Dr-) ... 8
KENNEDY (Prof. A. B. W.) 8
GARNETT (R.) . . .14
HILL (F. Davenport). . 29
KENNEDY (B. H.) . . 36
GARNETT (W.) ... 5
HlLL(O.). . . . 29
KEYNES(J.N-). . 26,28
GASKELL (Mrs.) . . 12
HIORNS (A. H.) . . 23
KlEPERT (H.) ... 9
GASKOIN (Mrs. H.) . . 30
HOBART (Lord) . . 21
KlLLEN (W. D.) . . 32
GEDDES (W. D.) . 13, 37
HOBDAY (E.) ... 9
KINGSLEY (Charles) . 4, 8, 10,
GEE (W. H.) . . 26, 27
GEIKIE (Sir A.). . 4, 9, 27
HODGSON (Rev. J. T.) . 4
HOFFDING (Prof H.) . 26
11,12,13,15.18,21,24, 32,37,39
KINGSLEY (Henry) . 20, 38
GENNADIUS (J.) . . 17
HOFMANN (A. W.) . . 7
KIPLING 0- L-)- 3 8
GIBBINS (H. de B.) . . 10
HOLE (Rev. C.). . 7, 10
KIPLING (Rudyard) . . 18
GIBBON (Charles) . . 3
HOLIDAY (Henry) . . 38
KIRKPATRICK (Prof.) . 34
GlLCHRIST(A.). . . 3
HOLLAND (T. E.) . 12,29
KLEIN (Dr. E.). . 6,23
GILES (P.). ... 25
HOLLWAY-CALTHROP(H.) 38
KNIGHT (W.) ... 14
GILMAN (N. P.) . . 28
HOLMES (O. W.,junr.) . 12
KUENEN (Prof. A.) . . 30
GILMORE (Rev. J.) . . 13
HOMER ... 13, 36
KYNASTON (Rev. H.) 34, 37
GLADSTONE (Dr. J. H.) 7, 8
HOOKER (Sir J. D.) . 6, 37
LABBERTON (R. H.). . 3
GLADSTONE (W. E.). . 13
HOOLE(C. H.). . . 3
LAFARGUE (P.). . . 18
GLAISTER (E.) . . . 2, 8
HOOPER (G.) ... 4
LAMB. . . .4, eo, 21
GODFRAY (H.) ... 3
HOOPER (W. H.) . . 2
LANCIANI (Prof. R.). . 2
GODKIN(G. S.). . . 5
HoPE(F.J.) ... 9
LANDAUER (J.). . . 7
GOETHE . . . 4, 14
HOPKINS (E.) . . . 14
LANDOR . . . 4, 20
GOLDSMITH 4, 12, 14, 20, 21
HOPPUS (M. A. M.) . . 18
LANE-POOLE (S.) . . 20
GOODALE (Prof. G. L.) . 6
HORACE ... 13, 20
LANFREY (P.) ... 5
GOODFELLOW (J.) . . II
HORT (Prof. F. J. A.). 30, 32
LANG (Andrew). 2, 12, 21, 36
GORDON (General C. G.) . 4
HORTON (Hon. S. D.) . 28
LANG (Prof. Arnold) . . 39
GORDON (Lady Duff) . 37
HOVENDEN (R. M.) . . 37
LANGLEY (J. N.) . . 27
GOSCHEN (Rt. Hon. G. J.). 28
HOWELL (George) . . 28
LANKESTER (Prof. Ray) 6, 21
GOSSE (Edmund) . 4, 13
HOWES (G. B.) . . . 40
LASLETT(T.) ... 6
Gow(J.) .... i
HOWITT (A. W.) . . I
LEAF (W.). . . 13, 36
GRAHAM (D.) . . .14
HOWSON (Very Rev. J. S.) 32
LEAHY (Sergeant) . . 30
GRAHAM (J.W.) . . 17
HOZIER (Col. H. M.). . 24
LEA(M.) . . . . 18
GRAND'HOMME (E.) . . 8
HUBNER (Baron) . . 37
LEE (S.) . . . 20, 37
GRAY (Prof. Andrew) . 26
HUGHES (T.) 4, 15, 18, 20, 37
LEEPER (A.) . . 37
GRAY (Asa) ... 6
HuLL(E.V . . . 2, 9
LEGGE (A. O.) . . 10, 34
GRAY ... 4, 14, 21
HULLAH (J.) . . 2, 20, 24
LEMON (Mark) . . . ao
GREEN (J. R.) . 9, 10, 12, 20
HUME(D.) ... 4
LESLIE (A.) . . .38
GREEN (Mrs. J. R.) . 4, 9, 10
HuMpHRY(Prof.SirG.M.) 28,39
LETHBRIDGE (Sir Roper) . 10
GREEN (W. S.) . . . 37
HUNT(W.) ... 10
LEVY (Amy) . . .18
GREENHILL (W. A.) . . 20
HuNT(W.M-). . . a
LEWIS (R.) . . . 13
GREENWOOD (I. E.) . . 39
GRIFFITHS (W. H.) . . 23
HUTTON (R. H.) . 4, 21
HUXLEY (T.) 4, 21 , 27, 28, 29, 40
LiGHTFOOT(Bp.)2i,3o,3i,33,34
LlGHTWOOD (J. M.) . . 12
GRIMM . . . .39
IDDINGS (J. P.). . . 9
LINDSAY (Dr. T. A.) . . 93
GROVE (Sir G.). . 9,24
ILLINGWORTH (Rev. J. R.) 34
LOCKYER (J. N.) . 3,7,27
GUEST (E.) . 10
INGRAM (T. D.) . . 10
LODGE (Prof. O. J.) . 21,27
GUEST (M. J.) . 10
IRVING (j.) _ . . -9
LOEWY(B.) . . . ao
GUILLEMIN (A.) . 26, 27
IRVING (Washington) . 12
LOFTIE (Mrs. W. J.). . a
GUIZOT (F. P. G.) . .5
JACKSON (Helen) . . 18
LONGFELLOW (H. W.) . ao
GUNTON (G.) . . 28
ACOB (Rev. J. A.) . . 34
LONSDALE (J.) . . 20, 37
HALES (J. W.) . . 16, 20
AMES (Henry). . 4, iB, 21
LOWE (W. H.) . . .30
HALLWARD (R. F.) . . 12
HAMERTON (P. G.) . 2, 21
AMES (Rev. H. A.) . . 34
; AMES (Prof. W.) . . 26
LOWELL (J. R.). . 15, 21
LuBBOCK(Sir J.) 6, 8, 21, 22,40
HAMILTON (Prof. D. J.) . 23
ARDINE (Rev. R.) . . 26
LUCAS (F.) ... 15
HAMILTON (J.). . . 34
BANS (Rev. G. E.) . 34, 37
LUPTON (S.) ... 7
HANBURY (D.) . . 6, 23
EBB (Prof. R. C.) . 4, 10, 13
LYALL (Sir Alfred) . . 4
HANNAY (David) . . 4
JELLETT (Rev. I. H.) . 34
LYTE(H. C.M.) . . 10
HARDWICK (Archd. C.) 31, 34
JENKS (Prof. Ed.) . . 29
LYTTON (Earl of) . . 18
HARDY (A. S.) . . . 17
JENNINGS (A. C.) . 10, 30
MACALISTER (D.) . . 3
HARDY (T.) ... 17
EVONS (W. S.). 4, 26, 28, 29
MACARTHUR(M-) . . as
HARE (A. W.) ... 20
EX-BLAKE (Sophia). . 8
MACAULAY (G. C.) . . 36
HARE (J. C.) . . 20, 34
OHNSON (Amy) . . 27
MACCOLL (Norman). . 14
HARPER (Father Thos.) 25,34
OHNSON (Samuel) . . 13
M'CosH (Dr. J.) . 25, 26
HARRIS (Rev. G. C.). . 34
ONES (H.Arthur) . . 15
MACDONALD (G.) . . 16
HARRISON (F.). . 4,5,21
ONES (Prof. D. E.) . . 27
MACDONELI. (J.) . . 29
INDEX.
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PAGE
PAGE
PACK
MACKAIL (J. W.) . . 37
HOULTON (L. C.) . . 15
5 OOLE (R. L.) . . . II
MACKENZIE (Sir Morell) . 23
MUDIE(C. E.) ... 15
'OPE . . . . 4, 20
MACLAGAN (Dr. T.). . 23
MuiR(M. M.P.) . . 7
'OSTE (E.) . . 27, 36
MACLAREN (Rev. Alex.) . 34
Ml)LLER(H.) ... 6
'OTTER (L.) . . .22
MACLAREN (Archibald) . 39
MULLINGER(J. B.) . . II
'OTTER (R.) . . .35.
MACLEAN (W. C.) . . 23
VIURPHY (J. J.). . .26
'RESTON (T.) . . .27
MACLEAR(Rev.Dr.G.F.) 30,32
VIURRAY (D.Christie) . 18
'RICE (L. L. F. R.) . . 28
M'LENNAN (J. F.) . . i
MURRAY (E. C. G.) . . 38
'RICKARD (A. O.) . . 22
M'LENNAN (Malcolm) . 18
MYERS (E.) . . 15, 36
'RINCE ALBERT VICTOR . 37
MACMILLAN(RCV. H.)z2,35,38
MYERS (F.W.H.) . 4, 15,22
'RINCE GEORGE . . 37
MACMILLAN (Michael) 5, 15
VIvLNE (Bishop) . . 35
'ROCTER(F-) . . .32
MACNAMARA (C.) . . 23
NADAL (E. S.) . . . 22
"ROPERT (J. L.) . . 2
MACQUOID (K. S.) . . 18
NETTLESHIP (H.). . . 13
IADCLIFFE (C. B.) . . 3
MADOC (F.) . . . 18
NEWCASTLE (Duke and
RAMSAY (W.) ... 7
MAGUIRE(J. F.) . . 39
Duchess) . . .20
iANSOME(C.) . . . IJ
MAHAFFY (Prof. J. P.)
NEWCOMB (S.) ... 3
JATHBONE(W-) . . 8
2, ii, 13, 22, 25, 35, 38
NEWTON (Sir C.T.). . 2
JAWLINSON (W. G.). . 2
MAITLAND (F. W.) . 12, 29
NICHOL(J.) . . 4, 13
3.AWNSLEY (H. D.) . . 15.
MALET (L.) . 18
NOEL (Lady A.) . .18
RAY (P. K.) . . .26
MALORY (Sir T.) . . 20
NORDENSKIOLD (A. E.) . 38
RAYLEIGH (Lord) . . 27
MANSFIELD (C. B.) . . 7
NORGATE (Kate) . .11
REICHEL (Bishop) . . 35
MARKHAM (C. R.) . . 4
NORRIS (W. E.) . . 18
R E iD(J.S.) ... 37
MARRIOTT (J. A. R.). . 5
NORTON (Charles Eliot) 3, 37
REMSEN (I.) ... 7
MARSHALL (Prof. A.) . 28
NORTON (Hon. Mrs.) 15, 18
RENDALL(ReV. F.) . 31,35
MARSHALL (M. P) . .28
OLIPHANT(MrS. M. O. W.)
RENDU(M. leC.) . . 9
MARTEL (C.) . . .24
4, ii, 13, 19, 20, 39
REYNOLDS (H. R.) . .35
MARTIN (Frances) . 3, 39
OLIPHANT (T. L. K.) 22, 25
REYNOLDS (J. R.) . . 23.
MARTIN (Frederick). . 28
OLIVER (Prof. D.) . . 6
REYNOLDS (O.). . . ii
MARTIN (H. N.) . . 40
OLIVER (Capt. S. P.). . 38
RICHARDSON (B. W.) ii, 23.
MARTINEAU (H.) . 5
OMAN(C. W.) ... 4
RICKEY (A. G.). . . 12
MARTINEAU (J.) . . 5
OSTWALD (Prof.) . . 7
ROBINSON (Preb. H. G.) . 35
MASSON(D.) 4,5,15,16,20,22,26
OTTE(E. C.) . . . n
ROBINSON (J. L.) . . 24
MASSON (G.) . . 7, 20
PAGE(T.E-) ... 31
ROBINSON (Matthew) . 5.
MASSON (R. O.) . . 16
PALGRAVE (Sir F.) . . ii
ROCHESTER (Bishop of) . 5
MATURIN (Rev. W.). . 35
PALGRAVE (F. T.)
ROCKSTRO (W. S.) . . 4
MAUDSLEY (Dr. H.) . . 26
2, 15, 16, 20, 21, 33, 39
ROGERS (J. E.T.) .11,28,29
MAURICE (Fredk. Denison)
PALGRAVE (R. F. D.) . 29
ROMANES (G. T.) . . 6
8, 22, 25, 30, 31, 32, 35
PALGRAVE (R. H. Inglis) . 28
ROSCOE (Sir H. E.) . .7
MAURICE (Col. F.) . 5,24,29
PALGRAVE (W. G.) 15, 29, 38
ROSCOE (W. C.) ... is
MAX MULLER(F.) . . 25
PALMER (Lady S.) . . 19
ROSEBERY (Earl of) . .4
MAYER (A.M.). . . 27
PARKER (T.J.). . 6,39
ROSENBUSCH(H.) . . 9
MAYOR (J-B-) ... 31
PARKER (W. N.) . . 40
Ross (P.) .... 19
MAYOR (Prof. J. E. B.) . 3, 5
PARKINSON (S.) . . 27
ROSSETTI (C. G.) . 15, 39
MAZINI (L.) . . -39
PARKMAN (F.) . . .11
ROUTLEDGE (J.) . . 29
M'CORMICK(W.S.) . . 13
MELDOLA (Prof. R.). 7, 26, 27
PARSONS (Alfred) . . 12
PASTEUR (L.) ... 7
RowE(F.J.) . 16
RUCKER (Prof. A. W.) 7
MENDENHALL (T. C.) . 27
PATER (W. H.) . 2, 19, 22
RUMFORD (Count) . . 22
MERCIER (Dr. C.) . . 23
MERCUR (Prof. J.) . . 24
PATERSON (J.) . . .12
PATMORE (Coventry) 20, 39
RUSHBROOKE (W. G.) . 31
RUSSELL (Dean) . . 35
MEREDITH (G.). . . 15
MEREDITH (L. A.) . . 12
PATTESON (J. C.) . .5
PATTISON (Mark) . 4, 5, 35
RUSSELL (Sir Charles) . 29
RUSSELL (W. Clark) . 4, 19
MEYER (E. von) . . 7
PAYNE (E. J.) . . ' 10, 29
RYLAND (F.) . . 13
MIALL (A.) 5
PEABODY (C. H.) . 8, 27
RYLE (Prof. H. E.) . . 30
MICHELET(M.) . . ii
PEEL(E.). ... 15
ST. JOHNSTON (A.) .19, 38, 39
MILL(H. R.) ... 9
PEILE(J.). . .25
SADLER (H.) ... a
MILLER (R. K.). . . 3
PELLISSIER (E.) . . 25
SAINTSBURY (G.) . 4, 13
MILLIGAN (Rev. W.). 31, 35
PENNELL (J.) ... 2
SALMON (Rev. G.) . . 35
MILTON . . 13, 15, 20
PENNINGTON (R.) . 9
SANDFORD (M. E.) . . 5
MINTO (Prof. W.) . 4, 18
PENROSE (F.C.) . .1,3
SANDYS (J. E.) . . . 38
MlTFORD (A. B.) . . if
PERRY (Prof. I.) . . 27
SAYCE (A. H.) . . .11
MivART(St. George). . 2!
MlXTER(W.G-) . . 7
PETTIGREW (J. B.) . 6, 28, 40
PHILLIMORE(J. G.) . . 12
SCHAFF (P.) . . . 30
SCHLIEMANN (Dr.) . . 2
MOHAMMAD . . .20
PHILLIPS (J. A.) . . 23
SCHORLEMMER (C.) . . 7
MOLESWORTH (Mrs.) . 39
PHILLIPS (W. C.) . , .. '
SCOTT (D. H.) . . , . 6
MOLLOY (G.) . . 26
MONAHAN (J. H.) . . 12
PlCTON(J. A.) . . . M
PlFFARD (H. G.) . . 23
SCOTT (Sir W.). . 15,20
SCRATCHLEY (Sir Peter) . 24
MONTELIUS (O.) . . I
PLATO .... 20
SCUDDER (S. H.) . . 40
MOORE (C. H.). . . 2
PLUMPTRE (Dean) . . 35
SEATON (Dr. E. C.) . . 93
MOORHOUSE (Bishop) . 35
MORISON (J. C.) . . 3, .
MORLEY (John). 3, 4, 16, 22
POLLARD (A. W.) . . 37
PoLLOCK(SirFk. ,2nd Bart.) 5
PoLLOCK(SirF.,Bart.) 12,22,29
SEELEY ( J. R. ) . . . u
SEILER (Dr. Carl) . 23,28
SELBORNE(Earlof) 12,20,32,33
MORRIS (Mowbray) . . -
POLLOCK (Lady) . . 2
SELLERS (E.) . . . 2
MORRIS (R.) . . 20, 25
POLLOCK (W. H.) . . a
SERVICE (I.) . 32, 35
MORSHEAD (E. D. A.) . 36
POOLE (M. E.) . . . 22
SEWELL (E. M.) . . ii
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SHAIRP (J. C.) . . 4, 15
TANNER (H.) . . . i WARD (A. W.) . . 4, 13, 20
SHAKESPEARE . 13, 15, 20, 21
TAVERNIER (J. B.) . . 38 WARD (H. M.) . . . 6
SHANN (G.) . . 8, 27
TAYLOR (Franklin) . . 24 WARD(S.). . . . 16
SHARP(W.) ... 5
TAYLOR (Isaac). . 25,35 WARD (T. H.) . . . 16
SHEI.LEY . . . 15, 21
TAYLOR (Sedley) . 24, 27 WARD (Mrs. T. H.) . 19, 39
SHIRLEY (W. N.) . . 35
TEGETMEIER (W. B.) . 8 WARD (W.) . . 5, 32
SHORTHOUSE (J. H.) . 19
TEMPLE (Bishop) . . 35 WARINGTON (G.) . . 36
SHORTLAND (Admiral) . 24
TEMPLE (Sir R.) . . 4 WATERS (C. A.) . . *ft
SHUCHHARDT (Carl). . 2
TENNANT (Dorothy). . 38 WATERTON (Charles) 24,38
.SHUCKBURGH (E. S. ) 11,36
TENNIEL .... 38 WATSON (E.) ... 5
:SHUFELDT (R. W.) . . 40
TENNYSON . 14,16,21 WATSON (R. S.) . . y
.SIBSON (Dr. F.) . . 23
TENNYSON (Frederick) . 16 WEBB (W. T.) . . . 16
.SIDGWICK (Prof. H.) 26,28,29
TENNYSON (Hallam). 12, 39 WEBSTER (Mrs. A.) . . 39
SlME (J.) . . . 9, IO
THOMPSON (D 'A. W.) . 6 WELBY-GREGORY (Lady) . 32
SIMPSON (Rev. W.) . . 32
THOMPSON (E.). . . 10 WELLDON (Rev. J. E. C.). 36
SKEAT (W. W.) . . 13
THOMPSON (S. P.) . . 27 WESTCOTT (Bp.) 30, 31, 32, 36
SKRINE (J. H.). . 5, 15
THOMSON (A. W.) . . 8 WESTERMARCK (E.). . i
SLADE (J. H.) . . .8
THOMSON (Sir C. W.) . 40 WETHI^RELL (J.) . ' $5
SLOMAN (Rev. A.) . . 31
THOMSON (Hugh) . . 12 WHEELER (J. T.) . . n
SMART (W.) ... 28
THOMSON (Sir Wm.) 24,26,27 WHEWELL (W.). . .5
SMALLEY (G. W.) . . 22
THORNE (Dr. Thorne) . 23 WHITE (Gilbert) . . 34
SMETHAM (J. and S.) . 5
THORNTON (J.). . . 6 WHITE (Dr. W. Hale) . 93
SMITH (A.) . . .20
THORNTON (W. T.) 26, 29, 37 WHITE (W.) . . . 27
:SMITH (C. B.) . . . 16
THORPE (T. E.). . . 7
WHITHAM(J. M.) . . 8
SMITH (Goldwin) . 4, 5, 29
THRING(E.) . . 8,22
WHITNEY (W. D.) . .8
SMITH (H.) . . .16
THRUPP (J. F.) . . . 30
WHITTIER (J. G.) . 16, 22
SMITH (J.) ... 6
SMITH (Rev. T.) . . 35
THUDICHUM (J. L. W.) . 7
THURSFIELD (J. R.) . . 4
WICKHAM (Rev. E. C.) . 36
WlCKSTEED (P. H.) . 28, 30
SMITH (W. G.) . . .6
TODHUNTER (I.) . -5,8
WlEDERSHEIM (R.) . . 40
SMITH (W.S.) ... 35
TORRENS (W. M.) . . 5
WlLBRAHAM (F. M.). . 32
'SOMERVILLE (Prof. W.) . 6
ToURGiNIEF (I. S.) . . 19 WlLKINS (Prof. A. S.) 2, I 3 , 36
SOUTHEY .... 5
TOUT (T. F.) . . .11 WILKINSON (S.) . . 24
SPENDER (J. K.) . . 23
TOZER(H. F.) ... 9
WILLIAMS (G. H.) . .9
SPENSER . . . .20
TRAILL (H. D.). . 4, 29
WILLIAMS (Montagu) . 5
SPOTTISWOODE(W.). . 27
TRENCH (Capt. F.) . . 29
WILLIAMS (S. E.) . . 13
STANLEY (Dean) . . 35
TRENCH (Archbishop) . 35
WlLLOUGHBY (F.) . . 39
STANLEY (Hon. Maude) . 29
TREVELYAN (Sir G. O.) . n
WILLS (W. G.) . . . 16
STATHAM (R.) . . .29
TRIBE (A.). ... 7
WILSON (A. J.) . . . 80
STEBBING(W.). . . 4
TRISTRAM (W. O.) . . 12 WILSON (Sir C.) . . 4
STEPHEN (C. E.) . 8 -
TROLLOPE (A.) . . . 4 WILSON (Sir D.) . 1,3,13
STEPHEN (H.) . . -13
TRUMAN (J.) . . . 16 i WILSON (Dr. G.) . 4,5,22
STEPHEN (Sir J. F.) 11,13,22
TUCKER (T. G.) . . 36 i WILSON (Archdeacon) . 36
STEPHEN (J. K.) . . 13
TULLOCH (Principal). . 35 j WILSON (Mary). . . 13
. STEPHEN (L.) ... 4
TURNER (C. Tennyson) . 16 j WINGATE (Major F. R.) . 24
STEPHENS (J. B.) . . 16
TURNER (G.) . . . i WINKWORTH (C.) . . 5
STEVENSON (J. J.) . . 2
TURNER (H. H.) . -27 WOLSELEY (Gen. Viscount) 24
STEWART (A.) . . . 39
TURNER (J. M.W.) . . 12
WOOD (A. G.) . . . 16
STEWART (Balfour) 26, 27, 35
TYLOR (E. B.) . . . i
WOOD (Rev. E. G.) . .36
STEWART (S. A.) . . 6
TYRWHITT(R. St. J.) 2,16
WOODS (Rev. F. H.). . I
STOKES (Sir G. G.) . . 27
VAUGHAN (C. J.) 31,32,35,36
WOODS (Miss M. A.). 17, 33
STORY (R. H.) . . .3
VAUGHAN (Rev. D. J.) 20, 36
WOODWARD (C. M.) . . 8
. STONE (W.H.). . . 27
VAUGHAN (Rev. E.T.) . 36
WOOLNER (T.) . . .16
STRACHEY (Sir E.) . . 20
VAUGHAN (Rev. R.) . . 36
WORDSWORTH . 5, 14, 16, 21
SrRACHEY(Gen. R.). . 9
VELEY(M.) ... 19
WORTHEY (Mrs.) . . 19
STRANGFORE>(Viscountess) 38
VENN (Rev. J.). . 26,36
WRIGHT (Rev. A.) . . 31
STRETTELL (A.) . . 16
VERNON (Hon. W. W.) . 13
WRIGHT (C. E.G.) . . 8
STUBBS (Rev. C. W.). . 35
VERRALL (A. W.) . 13, 36
WRIGHT (J.) . . .ax
STUBBS (Bishop) . . 31
VERRALL (Mrs.) . . i
WRIGHT (L. ) . . -27
SUTHERLAND (A.) . . 9
WAIN (Louis) . . .39
WRIGHT (W. Aldis) 8, 15, 20, 31
SYMONDS (J. A.) . . 4
WALDSTEIN (C.) . . 2
WURTZ (Ad.) ... 7
SYMONDS (Mrs. J. A.) . 5
WALKER (Prof. F. A.) . 28
WvATT(SirM. D.) . . a
SYMONS (A.) . . .16
WALLACE (A. R.) . 6, 24, 28
YONGE (C. M.) 5, 6, 8, 10, ii,
TMT (Archbishop) . . 35
WALLACE (Sir D. M.) . 29
19, 21,25, 30, 39
TAiT(C.W.A.) . . ii
WALPOLE (S.) . . .29
YOUNG (E. W.) . . 8
TAIT (Prof. P. G.) 26, 27, 35
WALTON (I.) . . .12
ZIEGLER (Dr. E.) . .23
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