“I want to go ’ome,” he often said to Billy Topsail and Jimmie Grimm.
“What for?” Billy once demanded.
“Don’t know,” Bagg replied. “I jus’ want to go ’ome.”
At last Bagg formed a plan.
CHAPTER VIII
In Which Bagg, Unknown to Ruddy Cove, Starts for Home, and, After Some Difficulty, Safely Gets There
Uncle Tommy Luff, coming up the hill one day when the ice was jammed against the coast and covered the sea as far as sight carried, was stopped by Bagg at the turn to Squid Cove.
“I say, mister,” said Bagg, “which way was you tellin’ me Lun’on was from ’ere?”