three shillings a night for watching; isn't that so?"

"Yes, that's so. Anyways, I shall draw it."

"Then why ain't you watching?"

"There's nothing to watch that I knows on--not just now."

"Then why should I pay you for it? I'm to pay you for ringing these
trees, ain't I?"

"Certainly, Mr. Heathcote."

"Then you're to make double use of your time, and sell it twice over,
are you? Don't try to look like a fool, as though you didn't
understand. You know that what you're doing isn't honest."

"Nobody ever said as I wasn't honest before."

"I tell you so now. You're robbing me of the time you've sold to me,
and for which I'm to pay you."

"There ain't nothing to watch while the wind's as it is now, and that
chap ain't any where about to-night."

"What chap?"

"Oh, I know. I'm all right. What's the use of dawdling about up there
in the broad moonlight, and the wind like this?"