Englishtown 
whence proceeded an appetising odour of cook- 
ing clams. This was a sorrowful delusion, 
however, as it proceeded from a kettle of " rock- 
weed " Annie was boiling for the pigs. 
The mother came with a pail of fresh blue- 
berries and bade us a cordial welcome, and we 
made a hearty supper of bread and milk, and 
blueberries sweetened with brown sugar, our 
appetites quickened by the day out of doors 
and the odour of steaming rockweed. 
After a night of such sleep as comes only to 
those who have spent the day in the open air, 
we wakened to a morning of splendour. 
A neighbour " tackled " Dan for us, making 
no comments upon the state of his rigging, un- 
tangling and putting all to rights and making 
our stanch little craft again seaworthy, with the 
deftness of a sailor. 
This handy son of Neptune also mended 
the holes the rope had worn in the feed-bag, 
for a fine stream of Dan's precious provender 
issued from each of a number of holes at every 
motion, and we know not how far we had left 
this sign of our passing along the lonely road. 
Meantime we talked to the pretty boy who 
is heir to the McLeod estate, and learned that 
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