Off to the Wilds Part 55

"Shure an' the master must be aff his head to give them boys such things," grumbled Dinny to Peter and Dirk, who were quite content with the presents they had received in clothes additional to their pay.

Right or wrong, he gave great satisfaction on all sides; and health being restored, and the sorrows of the past somewhat a.s.suaged, the regular duties of civilised life were resumed, and many a long evening was spent in arranging the various natural history objects brought home.

Now and then, so pleasant were the recollections of the exciting trip, the boys have brought the blood flus.h.i.+ng into the dusky cheeks of Coffee and Chicory, and a flash into their father's eyes, on saying that they wonder whether their father will ever organise another such trip, while Dinny has been heard to say spitefully that they may drive in that waggon to Novy Sembley, New Zealand, or the big islands of the say, he don't care a sthraw, so long as they'll only lave him at home.

THE END.