hall ever have any.'

"'O, don't say that, Hardy,' replied the Dean, sadly, 'I don't think we
are so bad off as to say we never will have any fire. Do you really
think we are?'

"'I can't say,' I replied; 'but what can we do?'

"'Try again,' answered the Dean;--and we were soon once more upon our
feet, both very determined to do something, but neither of us knowing
exactly what it should be.

"So we set off to inspect the cave which I told you of yesterday. The
Dean was much pleased with it, and, seeing nothing better to do, we both
went to work at once to build up a wall in front of it, feeling very sad
and sorrowful as we worked in silence. But in spite of our gloomy
thoughts we made good progress, and had soon a solid foundation laid;
but as we went on, it was plain enough to see that our wall was likely
to be of very little account, since we had no way of filling up the
cracks between the stones.

"This set us once more to thinking. Down below us in the valley there
was plenty of moss, or rather turf; but when we tried to pull it up with
our hands, we discovered that we could do nothing with it, and we wished
for something to dig with. Then I remembered the bones I had found on
the beach; so I told the Dean about them, and we both agreed that they
might be of use to us. The thing which I first thought of was the dead
narwhal with the great long horn; and I imagined that, if we could only
get that out of his head, we should have all we wanted.

"When the Dean and I went down to the narwhal, we foresaw that our task
would be even greater than we had supposed; for the horn which we were
after was so firmly embedded in the skull and flesh that it promised to
be a very serious work to get it out.

"First, we had to cut away the flesh and fat from the thick nose, until
we exposed the skull, and then we had to break the horn loose by
dropping heavy stones upon the socket. At length we were successful. But
we had consumed almost the whole day about it, and we found ourselves
very much fatigued; so we sat down upon the green grass, and rested and
talked for a while, before going back to work upon the wall again. The
horn was very heavy, but it answered our purpose; and we were soon
digging up the moss with it, and then we carried the moss up to help
make out the wall. This moss was very soft, being full of water; and it
fitted with the stones as nicely as any mason's mortar, so that we had
no more trouble in making t