" "My goodness me sakes alive, and some peanut candy!" cried Daddy Blake with a laugh.

Blake in his baidarka, and I in mine, paddled along, side by side, and pushed up to the extreme head of the bay, where we came upon an old deserted Indian camp of the year before.

"Now strike out slowly and carefully," directed Daddy Blake to the children.

"Well, are you all ready?" asked Mr. Blake of the children, after breakfast.

If they come at all, they are certain to be here soon after half-past eight, because I heard Fox telling Blake on the day of the match that they go to bed at nine.

exclaimed Blake as their baggage and moving picture cameras and accessories having been put away, they sat on the veranda and watched breaker after breaker sweep in from the Caribbean Sea.

"Oh my!" exclaimed Mamma Blake at the top of the cellar steps.

All the suspicions he had hadall those he had laughed at Blake for harboring, came back to him in a rush.

"There," he said, rising to his feet again; "we'll do this the last thing every night, and any morning if we find the cotton gone we must look here for footprints, and then we ought to be able to tell if it's a man or a boy." "Don't you think we ought to tell Blake about that man you saw?" asked Acton, as they walked back to the schoolroom.

The next day[c] he met Blake off the harbour of Dover; an action took place between the rival commanders; and, when the fleets separated in the evening, the English cut off two ships of thirty guns, one of which they took, the other they abandoned, on account of the damage which it had received.

It is believed that the thoughtful reader will find in these pages a quality more suggestive of the poetry of William Blake than of anything to be elsewhere found,flashes of wholly original and profound insight into nature and life; words and phrases exhibiting an extraordinary vividness of descriptive and imaginative power, yet often set in a seemingly whimsical or even rugged frame.

But what hindered Blake from retiring, as well before the fight, as after it?