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"We are the Crusoes of Seven Islands," said Dick. "But do you really believe they are uninhabited?" "Do ye see any signs of life, lad?" "I must say I do not. It's queer, too, for I rather imagined one at least of the other boats had reached this place." "I thought the same. But it looks now as if they all went to Davy Jones's locker, eh?" "It certainly does look that way."
The children of the modern emigrant, though enjoying a higher degree of civilization and intelligence, arising from a liberal education, might not have fared so well under similar circumstances as did our Canadian Crusoes, because, unused to battle with the hardships incidental to a life of such privation as they had known, they could not have brought so much experience, or courage, or ingenuity to their aid.
The cup-like top of the hill in which our Crusoes were living had but one entrance, as I have before told you, and the path leading to it was very steep, and made up of large stones and lumps of lava. "It would be a good thing," Tom said, "to get a lot of these inside. They would come in very handy to throw at an enemy, eh?" "That they would," said Frank.
Now I don't think that Tom and Frank were cruel, but they had to live, and those great green-speckled eggs made a splendid addition to the larder, so that, what with sunshine and better food, the girls soon got back all the colour they had lost during the long, long night of winter. But where was the Valhalla and her crew all this time? Would they never, never come? The Crusoes lived in hope.
"Do you think, Lilly, that we're the world?" said Robert ironically. "Oh, yes, I guess we're shipwrecked in this box, like Robinson Crusoes. And what we do on our own little island matters to us alone. As for the infinite crowds of howling savages outside there in the unspeakable, all you've got to do is mind they don't scrap you." "But WON'T they?" said Struthers.
These dozen or so boys and Uncle Jeb strolled up to visit the camp on the hill, and Uncle Jeb, as usual, expressed no surprise at finding that Tom's visitor had come. "Glad ter see yer," he said; "yer seem like a couple of Robinson Crusoes up here. Glad ter see yer givin' Tommy a hand." "I got a right to say he's my visitor, haven't I?" Tom asked, without any attempt at hinting.
Indiana knew the signs of the wild birds' coming and going with a certainty that seemed almost marvellous to her simple-minded companions. How delightful were the first indications of the coming spring! How joyously our young Crusoes heard the first tapping of the red-headed woodpecker!
When my spirits are bad ROBINSON CRUSOE. When I want advice ROBINSON CRUSOE. In past times when my wife plagued me; in present times when I have had a drop too much ROBINSON CRUSOE. I have worn out six stout ROBINSON CRUSOES with hard work in my service. On my lady's last birthday she gave me a seventh. I took a drop too much on the strength of it; and ROBINSON CRUSOE put me right again.
Without the arrival of William W. Kolderup, what with the approaching winter, the destruction of their stores, and the genuine wild beasts in the island, our Crusoes would have deserved to be pitied. "Uncle Will!" said Godfrey. "If I gave the island the name of Phina, let me add that I gave our dwelling the name of Will Tree!"
"And the girls were Robinson Crusoes, too." "Are the girls well?" questioned Mrs. Rover. "Very well, auntie. If they hadn't been we shouldn't have parted with them in San Francisco. They went back to Santa Barbara to finish their vacation." "I see. Well, it certainly was a wonderful trip. You'll have to tell us all the particulars this evening. I suppose you are as hungry as bears just now.
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