William. We don't use much
candle, at all events."

"No, we are too glad to go to bed: but there are two or three boxes of
one sort or another up in the cove."

The next morning before breakfast all hands were employed in getting the
turtle into the pond. After breakfast, William and Juno finished the
pond where the walls had not been raised high enough; and, when they
returned to dinner, reported that their task was completed. Mr
Seagrave also said that he had, he thought, cleared quite ground enough
for the present; and as Mrs Seagrave wanted Juno to help her to wash
the linen that afternoon, it was agreed that William, Ready, and Mr
Seagrave should all go down to the garden, and put in the potatoes.

Ready worked with the spade, while Mr Seagrave and William cut the
potatoes in pieces, so as to have an eye in each piece. When they had
finished this work, Mr Seagrave said--"Now that we have finished
cutting the potatoes, let us go and assist Ready in planting them and
the seeds which we have brought down with us."

CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT.

That night Ready sat up for two or three hours working by candle-light
(William keeping him company), very busily engaged fitting up the
fishing-lines with leads and hooks. At last two were complete.

"What bait must we use, Ready?"

"I should think that the best would be one of the fish out of the shells
which are in the sand; but a piece of pork fat will, I dare say, do as
well."

"And whereabouts would you fish, Ready?"

"The best place, I should think, would be at the farthermost end of the
point, where I got the boat through the reef--the water is deep there
close to the rocks."

"I was thinking, Ready, if those gannets and men-of-war birds would be
good eating."

"Not very, William; they are very tough and very fishy: we must try for
those when we can get nothing better. Now that we have got in the seeds
and potatoes, we must all set to to-morrow morning to fell and carry the
timber. I think Mr Seagrave had better use the axe with me; and you
and Juno can, when I have shown you how, hang the timber to the axle,
and wheel it out to the place where we have decided upon building the
house. And now we had better go to bed."

William, however, had made up his mind to do otherwise: he knew that his
mother would be very glad to have some fish, and he determined, as the
moon shone bright, to try if he could not catch some before he went to
bed; so he waited v