“No,” Nick said.

“Oh,” said Nick.

Nick said nothing.

I don’t know, Nick.

“I see,” Nick said.

Nick did not watch.

Not very many, Nick.

“I know,” said Nick.

Come on and eat, Nick.

Nick said, “All right.”

Nick didn’t look at it.

“All right,” Nick said.

Nick looked at her fish.

She loved to fish with Nick.

Oh, Nick, please cut it out!

Then Nick cut across the bay.

“I can’t help it,” Nick said.

“You know everything,” Nick said.

“I can just remember,” Nick said.

“See, it’s a boy, Nick,” he said.

Nick trailed his hand in the water.

“But they won’t strike,” Nick said.

“I want to go with you,” Nick said.

Nick held the basin for his father.

No, I think it’s pretty easy, Nick.

Dick Boulton turned to Nick’s father.

Nick sat there, his head in his hands.

Nick put the basin out in the kitchen.

“Where are we going, Dad?” Nick asked.

“I don’t feel like eating,” said Nick.

“What’s the matter, Nick?” Marjorie asked.

“There’s our old ruin, Nick,” Marjorie said.

Nick lay back with his father’s arm around him.

“There’s going to be a moon tonight,” said Nick.

You can watch this or not, Nick, just as you like.

“I don’t know,” Nick said, getting wood for a fire.

“This lady is going to have a baby, Nick,” he said.

“Oh, yes.” Nick said, lying, his face on the blanket.

Nick looked on at the moon, coming up over the hills.

“Take Nick out of the shanty, George,” the doctor said.

“I know where there’s black squirrels, Daddy,” Nick said.

Nick, rowing, looked at the white stone in the green trees.

He found Nick sitting with his back against a tree, reading.

Nick watched his father’s hands scrubbing each other with the soap.

“Do ladies always have such a hard time having babies?” Nick asked.

They were seated in the boat, Nick in the stern, his father rowing.

Nick went back and lay down with his face in the blanket by the fire.

Dick Boulton came from the Indian camp to cut up logs for Nick’s father.

Marjorie sat on the blanket with her back to the fire and waited for Nick.

They pulled the boat up the beach and Nick lifted out a pail of live perch.