Viking Boys

aspard followed him into a little room which was doing duty as a study until the Den was restored to order, and as the scientist put dow

Adiesen, not looking up,

u say-that our ancestors were Vikin

o go on telling of his romantic fancy and wi

peated calmly, then paused, and asked in ice-co

ut, uncle," and again poor Yaspard came to a deadlock, and might never have m

ring that her brother's courage might fail him, she stole to his s

, uncle; only we thought you ought to know

but he was very fond of Signy. She was his o

tly, while his grim feature relaxed as he looked at her; and the

rbidden that, so I took up the feud in a sort of way on my own account, and determined to make raids upon them, and have fights (sham-fights) a

phew by some not complimentary names, and dismissed him abruptly, saying, "Go along with you, and take your fun any way you please. Only remember-no friendship

igny lingered to ask, "Would you

man and boy in Lunda if he

g folks had listened outside that door they would have heard a curious noise; but whether it meant that the old ma

ing, but, racing off to his boat with Signy, was soon sailing up th

either shore with a sillack-rod from a boat passing through. When it is ebb-tide you can walk dry-shod across this passag

of land. It rises abruptly from both sides,

afterwards. It seemed that he had made the fortune, but the happiness had eluded him. He would give no account of his life, and seldom cared to converse with any one except Brüs Adiesen, from whom he asked and readily obtained the half-ruined home of their fathers. Two or three rooms were made habitable; the half-witted brother of James Harrison was hired as attendant; cart-loads of books were brought from the South (by which vague term the Shetlanders

m, and would entertain the boy with many strange legends of the old house; for Tammy was shrewd and imaginative; his "want" exhibited itself in no outrageous manner, but rather in a kind of low cunning and feebleness of will. It was Tammy's t

ding her brother's oft-repeated declaration that the man "wasn't so bad as he looked." Therefore, when Yaspard moored the

ere are lovely shells about, and I c

s. She was soon so interested in her occupation that she forgot how time slips past, and was

as he helped Signy into the boa

ule-Tammy?"

had it all so nicely planned-to hide Gloy there, and bring our armour and our spoil there. It was just the ver

Neeven?" Signy ventured to sugg

he secrecy and dark plotting and fun out of it all. But, never min

rd's smooth brow, and very soon he was la

and lazy after a long day's fishing, gravely dropped into the boat, and looked at

laughed Yaspard. He had given Loki the nickname of "P

iesen's particular pet, alighted on the bow with a croak so hoarse and solemn that Signy cried out

st as the Vikinger did, you know. They always carried a raven with them; and a

and Loki flew off in stately flight to the house. Signy followed on foot, wis

always allowed to be there as much as he pleased, for Mrs. Harrison was a religious as well as j

o Havnholme, and she was delighted when Yaspard

n prison," she laughingly called out, when twili

oughtful smile, "It's a strange way the young anes hae o' t