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"'Tain't a bad night as nights go," stated the caller

"It's a beautiful night," said Polly Candage

"I reckon it see to your father telling the yarn down to the store"

They did not reply, having their own ideas as to Captain Candage's

loquacity

The caller hauled a plug of tobacco fro of his jaws "This world is full of trouble," he

observed, "It seeet kicked further down"

"Also true, in many cases"

"Take your case! It's bad But our'n is worse!" The caller pointed to

the dim bulk of a small island which the cove held between the bold jaws

of its headland "The old sir who named that Hue and Cry Islandto happen there

some day--and this is the day!" He chewed on, and his silence beca

"Well, what has happened?" de to"

Further silence

"Tell us what's going to happen, can't you?"

"Of course I can, now that you have asked s unless I'm asked There's seventeen

faet off"

"Who told you?"

"The state! So and said the Governor sent 'eo"

"But I know about Hue and Cry!" protested Mayo "You people have lived