‘You may be sure that they make the same mistake about the Island that they make about everything else. But what is the current lie at present?’ ‘They say it is all a device of Mr. Halfways—who is in the pay of the Brown Girls.’ ‘Poor Halfways! They treat him very unfairly—as if he were anything more than the local representative of a thing as widespread and as necessary (though, withal, as dangerous) as the sky! Not a bad representative, either, if you take his songs in your stride and use them