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of June. Their size alone makes them conspicuous, and they 

 have a weird look as they flit about in the warm, still twilight. 



Dick got several for his collection, and then it was time to be 

 returning; and after making due acknowledgment to the 

 friendly keeper they drove back through the quiet night, while 

 nightingales sang around them, and the great red moon rose 

 over the eastern woods, and quenched the pale light of the 

 stars. The horses went well together, and they had no trouble 

 with them ; and when they got back to the hotel they went to 

 bed, declaring they had spent a very jolly day. 



CHAPTER XIX. 



Back again. Taken in Tow. Bobbing for Eels. Glow-worms. Home. 

 Urticating Caterpillars. 



IT will be seen that our boys had great capacities for enjoying 

 themselves, and so oblivious had they been of the flight of time, 

 that they had only left themselves two days in which to get 

 home, for they felt bound not to ask for any extension of their 

 holiday. Two days was a very short time to sail all the way 

 down the Yare and up the Bure again ; and to add to their 

 dilemma, the wind had settled in the east, and blew light and 

 fitfully all day until five or six, when it would drop. They 

 could have gone back by road and left the yacht to be sent 

 after them, but this would have been infra dig., and was not to 

 be thought of while the chance remained of reaching home in 

 a legitimate way. So they started, and with infinite labour and 

 much tacking and clever sailing, they succeeded in reaching 

 Brundall, about six miles down the river, by the middle of the 

 day. 



" This won't do," said Frank. " Here comes a steam-wherry. 

 I wonder if they will take us in tow." 



The wherry was hailed, and for a small consideration her 



