old lemon?"

"No, there are only three rolls. Some of us will have to eat
crackers."

"I will eat marline-spikes," said Mr. Daddles, "if you've got any
of them on board. I've never seen one,--though I've heard of them
a great deal."

"I'll eat crackers," declared Jimmy Toppan.

"So will I," said Sprague, "and glad to get 'em. I might be
gnawing a bone in jail, now, instead."

"And there's no milk," said the Chief, "we were going to get some,
and some bread, this morning in Bailey's Harbor."

"If you had endured the sufferings that _I_ have in Bailey's
Harbor--" began Sprague.

"There are three dozen eggs," said Pete, "and that's more than
four apiece, and there is plenty of bacon,--stop talking and get
busy."

In ten minutes we were eating breakfast. They had trouble to keep
us all supplied with fried eggs, until two skillets were put into
commission. Then there was silence for a time.

"There's an apple pie down there," remarked Sprague, as he helped
himself to another cup of coffee.