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"And then chairs, and a table, Martin"

"True!" says I, growing gloomy "Table and chairs would be easy had I but a saw! I could make you shelves and a cupboard had I but fortuned to find a saw instead of this hatchet"

"Nay, Martin," says she, se "Why this despond? If you can ht but your knife and a piece of driftwood, I know you will make me chairs and table of sorts, saw or no, aye, if our table be but a board laid across stones, and our chairs the sa at my hatchet that it was not a saw

"Well, Martin, if there be oats in the island, and if you could take two or three alive, I have been thinking we ht use their milk in many ways if we had pans to put the milk in, as butter and cheese if you could make me a press Here be a-plenty of ifs, Martin, and I should not waste breath with so many if you were not the rind the hatchet on a stone

"Ato overcoround er

"And what more would you have?" I questioned

"If you could make our front door to open and shut?"

"That is easily done! And what else beside?"

"Nay, here is enough for the present We are like to be very busy people, Martin"

"Why, 'twill pass the ti!" quoth she thoughtfully

"It is!" says I, grinding away at row impatient to explore our island!"

"And so you shall so soon as you are strong enough"

"And that will be very soon!" says she "The sea-water is life to er every day"

"Meantime there is much to be done and here sit I in idleness"

"Nay, you are sharpening your axe and I a what you will make next?"

"A lamp!" says I

"How, Martin?"

"With a shell, the fat of our goat rendered down, and cotton from my shirt"

"Nay, if you so yearn for a la "Meantiin with, try my hand at a stool for you"