the boil. Then we makes the poultice in the drop of water; and when 'e was
ready, we gets the grid and puts it across the top of the other bucket, and
lays the poultice on the grid, and me and the mate picks up the full bucket
with two pair o' tongs, 'olding a torch under 'er to keep 'er at the boil.

When the old man saw us 'is face twisted a bit! But talk about cold! We
slapped the poultice on to 'im, and, if you'll believe me, inside o' ninety
seconds the thing 'ad _froze 'ard on 'im_, and formed a splint, and--saved
'is life, blarst 'im!

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[Illustration: SOME CATCH: THE ANGLER'S DREAM.]

[Illustration: SOME CATCH: THE ANGLER'S DREAM.]

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[Illustration: _Lieutenant ----, R.N., to Lieutenant ----, R.N. (they are
paying one of those periodical visits to a lonely island in the South
Pacific)._ "THESE WRETCHED ISLANDERS, CUT OFF AS THEY ARE FROM ALL THE
WORLD, ARE, I SUPPOSE, HARDLY CIVILISED."

_First Wretched Islander to Second Wretched Islander._ "DOES THIS VISIT
INTRIGUE YOU?"]

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[Illustration: "AND THE LAST THING MY MISSUS SAID TO ME WAS, 'BRING US 'OME
SOME SORT OF AN OLD CURIOSITY FROM FURREN PARTS.'"]