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"Why didn't we do that?" asked Dick

"Do what?" asked Mr Button

"Plant some of the potatoes"

"And where'd we have found the spade to plant theuess we could have fixed up a spade," replied the boy "I made a spade at home, out of a piece of old board once--daddy helped"

"Well, skelp off with you, and make a spade now," replied the other, anted to be quiet and think, "and you and E nearby, stringing together soeous blossoms on a tendril of liana Months of sun and ozone had made a considerable difference in the child She was as brown as a gipsy and freckled, not very much taller, but twice as pluh she were conte futurity and ies, and she had lost the habit of sleep-walking

The shock of the tent coht she was tethered to the scull had broken her of it, helped by the new healthful conditions of life, the sea-bathing, and the eternal open air There is no narcotic to excel fresh air

Months of seood deal of difference in Dick's appearance He o inches taller than on the day they landed Freckled and tanned, he had the appearance of a boy of twelve

He was the pro child, but he was healthy-looking, with a jolly laugh, and a daring, almost impudent expression of face

The question of the children's clothes was beginning to vex the mind of the old sailor The climate was a suit of clothes in itself One wason Of course there were changes of teht Eternal summer, broken by torrential rains, and occasionally a storm, that was the clio about with nothing on

He took some of the striped flannel andon the sand, Ear tried on; he, with a mouthful of pins, and the houseith the scissors, needles, and thread by his side

"Turn to the lift a bit more," he'd say, "aisy does it Stidy so--musha! musha! where's thi till I get the stitches in behint Does that hang comfortable? well, an' you're the trouble an' all How's THAT? That's aisier, is it? Lift your fut till I see if it comes to your knees Now off with it, and lave s to it"