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borrow a boat (Mr. Terkelsen’s, quite often)
and go rowing around the island. Then,
afterwards, we float about,—dabbling and
splashing in the darkened water until evening
comes on. Ah! that is pleasure!
An Adventure
One summer evening Massa Peckell, Mina
Trap and I saved two people from drowning;
and we were praised for it in the newspapers.
Really it is most delightful to see your name in
print! I should like ever so much to do
some-thing else that the papers would praise me for,
hut I don’t know what it could be!
This is how it happened that time. We had
borrowed old Terkelsen’s boat and rowed quite
a way out. From a wharf on one of the islands
another hoat laden with wood came towards us.
The wood was in slabs and chips and was piled
high fore and aft. Down between the piles sat
two children rowing. As they came nearer we
saw that it was Lisa and George, the
lighthouse-keeper’s children. Mina and I were rowing,
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