smile, "but I cannot, nevertheless, keep you in my tent."

"I have no such wish, my lord, and desire only that your
lordship should point out where you will have me posted. Do
not trouble yourself about us -- with us a night soon passes
away."

"You shall be conducted to your bark."

"As your lordship pleases. Only, if your lordship would
allow me to be taken back by a carpenter, I should be
extremely grateful."

"Why so?"

"Because the gentlemen of your army, in dragging my boat up
the river with a cable pulled by their horses, have battered
it a little upon the rocks of the shore, so that I have at
least two feet of water in my hold, my lord."

"The greater reason why you should watch your boat, I
think."

"My lord, I am quite at your orders," said the fisherman; "I
shall empty my baskets where you wish; then you will pay me,
if you please to do so; and you will send me away, if it
appears right to you. You see I am very easily managed and
pleased, my lord."

"Come, come, you are a very good sort of a fellow," said