"I'm in no hurry."
"You're grand people over there; I hear a man is paid four dollars a day for his work."
"And how much," said James, "has he to pay for his food and for his clothes?"
Her cheeks were bright and her teeth small, white and beautifully even; and a woman's soul looked at Bryden out of her soft Irish eyes. He was troubled and turned aside, and catching sight of a frog looking at him out of a tuft of grass he said:—
"I have been looking for a frog to put upon my pike line."
The frog jumped right and left, and nearly escaped in some bushes, but he caught it and returned with it in his hand.
"It is just the kind of frog a pike will like," he said. "Look at its great white belly and its bright yellow back."
And without more ado he pushed the wire to which the hook was fastened through the frog's fresh body, and dragging it through the mouth he passed the hooks through the hind legs and tied the line to the end of the wire.
"I think," said Margaret, "I must be looking after my cows; it's time I got them home."
"Won't you come down to the lake while I set my line?"