and he cried, and little Caroline was frightened at being so long in
the wood, and she cried. But finally they got on better, and arrived at
last so warm and exhausted, that Mrs. Seagrave went into the tent with
the children to repose a little, before she could even look at the
place which was to be their future residence.

"I think," said Mr. Seagrave, "that this little journey of to-day has
been a pretty good proof of how helpless we should have been without
you, Ready."

"I am glad that you are here, sir," replied Ready, "it is a weight off
my mind; now you will get on better. I think that after a while you may
live very comfortably here; but still we have much to do. As soon as
Madam has rested, we will have our dinner and then fix up our own tent,
which will be quite enough after such a hard day's work."

"Do you go back to the cove to-morrow, Ready?"

"Yes, sir, we want our stores here; it will take about three trips to
empty our storehouses; and as to the other things, we can examine them
and bring them down at our leisure. As soon as I have made those three
trips in the boat, we can then work here altogether."

"But I can do something in the meantime."

"Oh yes, there is plenty for you to do."

Mr. Seagrave went into the tent, and found his wife much refreshed; but
the children had all fallen fast asleep on the beds. They waited
another half-hour, and then woke Tommy and Caroline, that they might