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filled a hod, and mounted to the fifth story of
a brick house on Pat’s shoulder.

“ A boat builder, a joiner, a mason, a sailor,
a chemist! I really hope, Tom, you won’t be
a ‘Jack at all trades, and good at none.’ ”

‘All these trades are only preparatory to
the last. We must, sometimes, ‘go round the
bush, and round the bush, and round the bush,
before we can catch the bird.’ ”

As they were going over the river, towards
evening, Tom said:

‘“‘T wonder what has become of that English
boy staying at Rose Lawn. He promised to
go over to the island some day with me.”

“There he is, standing alone on the bank
of the river—all alone.”

“JT will hail him,” said Tom. “ Hulloa!
hulloa !”

A feeble “hulloa” was returned. When the
boat reached the landing-place, Howard was
there.

Tom and Bessie had on their working clothes,
and they were not very clean; for bricks,
stones, and mortar, are not neat things to
handle.