"
"Fire AT! I don't fire at things, I hit 'em."
"Yes, sar. In that case we shall procure plenty of games."
"See here! I'm going alone, understand? I have an engagement with
a Naiad."
"'Ow much a month will you be getting for such h'engagements?"
"Naiads don't pay in money, they give you smiles and kind words."
"Better you continue then as train collector. There is great
h'opportunity for stealing."
"My job won't be ready for a few days, and meanwhile I have become
a huntsman. I intend to go out every afternoon."
"H'afternoons is no good for wild h'animals; they are sleeping.
Walk they in the h'early morning, for the most part, very
quietly."
"That's true of some wood creatures, but the kind I hunt dance
along the edges of pools in the afternoon. Say, did you ever feel
like dancing?"
"No, sar."
"Come around on the back porch and I'll teach you a buck-step. I
feel too good to sit still."
But Allan refused this proffer firmly. Such frivolous conduct was
beneath his dignity.
"I 'ave h'important things to disclose," he said, mysteriously.
"Indeed."
"Yes, sar. Last night I dreamed."
"You've got nothing on me; so did I."
"I am walking on the h'edge of the h'ocean when I h'encountered a
whale--a 'uge whale.
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