144 DAYS STOLEN FOR SPORT 



awaited us and who expressed their wonder in such 

 length of glowing terms that the children who had 

 crowded round began to fear that they would gain 

 no notice for their captures which they had made 

 amongst the stones in little pools the receding tide 

 had left ; strange creatures, some of them, that 

 they desired to know the names of, but their 

 appeals to father, uncle, and grandfather only 

 proved to them, as children's questions often do, 

 how strangely ignorant grown-up people are. 



