and then took him in when he was sinking. By the knocking Nicholas
I he'll plague you, now he's come over the herring-pond! When he
was so high he had the spirit of thunder and lightning.'

'How did he get back from India?'

'Why, how should I know? The house there was done up; and that
gave us a shake at Middleburgh, I think; so they sent me again to
see what could be done among my old acquaintances here, for we
held old stories were done away and forgotten. So I had got a
pretty trade on foot within the last two trips; but that stupid
hounds-foot schelm, Brown, has knocked it on the head again, I
suppose, with getting himself shot by the colonel-man.'

'Why were not you with them?'

'Why, you see, sapperment! I fear nothing; but it was too far
within land, and I might have been scented.'

'True. But to return to this youngster--'

'Ay, ay, donner and blitzen! HE'S your affair,' said the Captain.

'How do you really know that he is in this country?'

'Why, Gabriel saw him up among the hills.'

'Gabriel! who is he?'

'A fellow from the gipsies, that, about eighteen years since, was