Gilbert sat at the head of the table, and Mr. Hamilton thought he had never seen anything so beautiful as Mrs. Carey in her lavender challie, sitting behind the tea cups; unless it was Nancy, flushed like a rose, changing the plates and waiting on the table between courses.

They approach within hailing distance, and are announcing each to each their identity, when the young man at the tiller jerks himself to a squatting posture, and, from under a broad-brimmed and slouched straw hat, cries to the schooner's one passenger: "Hello, Challie Keene.

"Mo té pas fé cette bras, Mawse ChallieI di'n't mek dat ahm; no 'ndeed I di'n', Mawse Challie.

Oh, Mawse Challie, pou' l'amou' du bon Dieu n'fé pas ça!