'Where is Granfer Piskey?' asked the poor little sufferer. 'I am afraid I am getting worse, for all the dance has left my legs.' 'Granfer Piskey is over on the Island,' cried a little Piskey. 'So he is,' said all the other Piskeys, sending their glance in that direction, where, on the edge of a beetling cliff facing Castle Gardens, stood a tiny old man, with a white beard flowing down to his bare little feet. He was dressed, as were all the other Piskeys, in a bright green coat and a red stocking cap. He disappeared into a Piskey-hole the Piskeys had dug in the cliff, which led down into an underground passage between the Island and the mainland, and very soon he reappeared from another hole in Castle Gardens, a few feet from where the little Piskeys were anxiously awaiting him. 'Why are you not fiddling, dancing and laughing?' asked the little Whitebeard, winking his eyes on the silent little Piskey crowd, standing near their little brother Piskey who was looking so queer. 'You are wasting precious time standing here doing nothing. Before a great while the moon will have set over Trevose, and the time for merry-making and high-jinks will be over,' he added, as not a Piskey spoke. 'We are not fiddling, dancing and laughing because of something that has befallen our little brother,' said the Tiny Fiddler at last, pointing to the poor little Piskey who had raised himself to a sitting position and was seated on the Piskey-ring. 'He is a rum-looking little customer, sure 'nough,' said the old Whitebeard, glancing in the direction of the place where the Little Fiddler pointed. 'What is the matter with him?' 'That is what we want to know,' answered the Little Fiddler. 'Come and have a closer look at him, Granfer Piskey;' and Granfer Piskey came. 'What is the matter with him?' asked one of the Piskeys when the Whitebeard had stared down a minute or more on the little atom of misery sitting humped up on the edge of the great green ring like a toad on a hot shovel. 'You are so old and wise, you will be able to tell us what ails him, if anybody can. He thinks he is sick like the big people we lead a fine dance round the fields and commons sometimes,' as Granfer Piskey stood stock-still before the little afflicted Piskey, winking and blinking and solemnly shaking his head. 'He is not sick like those people of whom you spoke,' said the Whitebeard at last. 'He has----' 'The make-outs,' shrilled a little voice with a laugh somewhere in the background. 'No, he hasn't the make-outs, you impudent little rascal!' said Granfer Piskey, without lifting his gaze from the poor little fellow on the edge of the ring. 'That's a complaint from which you apparently suffer.' 'What has he?' asked the Tiny Fiddler, impatiently scraping his fiddle-stick over his fiddle, as if to emphasize his words.