n's turtle, that swallowed his own
head, Sanford?"

"Of course."

"I don't mean to say that you swallowed your own head; but you found
it just where you didn't expect to find it. Isn't that so?"

"We are going to talk the matter over with Ole by and by."

"Do it now. I know all about it. You and Ole arranged the first part
of our journey, including the day's fishing we had at Apalstoe; and Ole
and I arranged the last part of it. It is an even thing now, and if
you won't complain of the last part, I won't say a word about the
first."

"I don't understand it."

"Don't you! Well, you gave Ole a sovereign to arrange things for you
in the beginning, and I gave him five species to arrange them for me
afterwards. You can't complain of a fellow, who sells himself at all,
for making as much money as he can. Ole only did that."

"He sold us out," growled Sanford.

"Of course he did; if you buy a man, you mustn't grumble when he does
a second time what you encouraged him to do in the first instance. But
you were going to take us off to the Rjukanfos, fifty or sixty miles
out of our way, without our knowledge or consent. I smelt a mice, and
turned the tables," laughed the cashier.

"Yes, and you cheated me," interposed Clyde.

"I had nothing whatever to do with you," answered Burchmore, mildly.

"You led me here when I wanted to go another way."

"You went where you pleased, so far as I was concerned. I never
invited you to come with me, or even consented to your doing so."

"Did you say the place we came to yesterday was Kongsberg?"

"I did, and so it was. But I think it was Sanford who first proclaimed
the fact, and I cheerfully assented to its correctness," chuckled
Burchmore.

"But you deceived me, and I'll have it out with you," continued Clyde.

"Just as you please about that; but you had better let that black eye
bleach out before you begin again."

"I can whip you!" blustered Clyde. "I'll meet you anywhere."

"No, I thank you. If we meet for any such purpose as you suggest, it
will be by accident."

"See here, Great Britain; you needn't make another row," said Sanford.

"I'm going to whip this fellow for what he has done, and for calling
me a bully."

"You are a bully," added Sanford.

"That's so," exclaimed Stockwell.

"Now you can lick the whole of us, if you insist upon it," continued
the coxswain.

"Perhaps I will," retorted Clyde, shaking his head fiercely. "You have
got me into a pretty