Uncle William

inting now and then across the harbor at a line of smoke that dwindled into the sky. Each

. He threw it on the sand with a grunt. Straightening himself, he glanced

ented Uncle Will

it along the beach. "He's left you poorer'n he found you," he said. His tough

ncle William. His eyes follo

ow he's up and lost your boat for you." He glanced complacently at the Andrew Halloran sw

on, where the gray-blue haze lingered lightly. The blue sky dipped to me

along 'bout a bout?" a

t need her much more this fall, anyways," he said. "An' come spr

tle jealously at the Andrew Hall

aid Uncle William, "but I reckon I

d a little. "What you

e's the fish. Gunnion hain't se

d. "Seventy-

count of lobsters up t

s squinted knowing

y. "We didn't date the 'count-just lump

lf." He made a rough calculation. "It won't make a

am. He looked serenely at the sky. "Like en

ugh!" sai

d it," said

p-f-f with his lips and screwed up his e

aid reproachfully. "Folks do do things, a good many time

a thing, Willum, I like to hev suthin' t

he sea-lions bobbed their thick, flabby black heads inquiringly

sively on their gambols. "

' like to see 'em, Andy-up and down and bobbin' and sloppin

wear 'em. I tell you, Willum,"-he turned a gloomy eye on his co

," said Wil

wave of his hand that condensed scorn. "What'd you

into words," said William, thought

. When he sends you anything for that boat

you want me to. I'll be reel pleased