“Yes, miss, but I wasn’t.”
“What were you doing in such a dangerous place?”
“Eh?” said Ram, changing colour; “what was I doing?”
“Yes, to run such a risk.”
“I was—I was—”
Ram was completely taken aback, and sat staring, with his mouth open.
“Lookin’ after a lost sheep,” came in a deep growl from under Jemmy Dadd’s hat.
“Oh! And did you find it?”
“Yes; he fun’ it,” said the man, “but it were in a very dangerous place. It’s all dangerous ’long here; and Master Shackle wouldn’t let young Ram here go along these here clift slopes without me to take care on him.”
Ram grinned.