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I was watching by the faint light of the lantern, and noticing how unnatural father and Sheridan looked. They seemed to be blocked out in a rude kind of way, like some wooden toys I had at home. "Here we are," said father, "like Robinson Crusoes. It was hard luck for Robinson, not having his little girl along.
There was no need that he should remove himself to so vast a distance. She wanted them to be two comrades two Crusoes without a man Friday, working harmoniously for the common good of the community. But Stair held out for a position frankly subaltern. "If you will tell me what I am to do you know the place better than I it is time to do it!" He was outwardly calm, inwardly raging, as he spoke.
The boys caught them by means of snares made of a kind of tough creeper. And bonny Flossy caught as many fish as would have kept a large family alive. Tom seldom used his rifle, though he always carried it. The cartridges were too precious to waste. Another thing which these Crusoes had to be very careful to do was never to let the fire go out.
"Yes," cried Frank; "he is indeed." "And now, children," said Tom, when he was once more seated in front of the camp fire, "the question of lights is settled for good. Frank and I are going to make candles out of that bear's tallow." "Yes, Pansy, we are. Oh, we shouldn't be half Crusoes if we couldn't make candles!" So the boys arranged to start work the very next morning at sunrise.
"That is perhaps because it is not in this part of the province!" answered Godfrey. "But a village?" "There's nothing here." "Where are we then?" "I know nothing about it." "What! You don't know! But Godfrey, we had better make haste and find out." "Who is to tell us?" "What will become of us then?" exclaimed Tartlet, rounding his arms and lifting them to the sky. "Become a couple of Crusoes!"
One morning, a month or two after this, the Crusoes awoke to find that the sun rose that day for the last time, and, until spring should return, they would see his golden beams no more. But there was a bright and beautiful twilight every mid-day for two weeks longer. Then they knew that the long, dreary Arctic night had come in earnest.
What a joke it would be if we had to stop here all night!" she said it with intention, and Graeme understood and blessed her. "We'll hope it won't come to that," he said, as lightly as he could make it. "But, if it should, we could make ourselves fairly comfortable. Robinson Crusoes up to date!" "No Swiss Family Robinsons!" was Margaret's quota to the lightening of gloom.
There were blueberries, too, in abundance, and these also made a welcome addition to their table. "Boys," said Lane, one morning, "I'm meat hungry. I can still taste that beefsteak we got the other night at Rockland. Think of the ton or so of mutton chops running loose on top of this island, while we poor Crusoes are starving to death on the beach!"
Worthy Tartlet, folks do not make themselves Crusoes, they become Crusoes, and you are not sure that you are wise in comparing your position with that of the heroes of the two English and Swiss romances! The precautions taken by Godfrey as soon as he returned to Will Tree were as follows.
Godfrey recognized at once the fate in store for the wretched man. The spit was for him! The fire was to roast him at! Tartlet had not been mistaken, when, the previous evening, he had spoken of these folks as cannibals! It must be admitted that neither was he mistaken in saying that the adventures of Crusoes, real or imaginary, were all copied one from the other!
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