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Together they hunted that day She carried what his skilful aireenery above Birds, squirrels, chipmunks, all elcome Noon found theas And for the first tiain, roasted on a sharp stick over the glowing coals

Stern hunted all that day and the next He dressed the gae and sharp clamshell, which he whetted fro And soon the fire was overhung with e in preparation for the journey into the unknown

"Inside of a week, at this rate," he judged, "we'll be able to start again Youthe brook is tough and long We can carry fifty or seventy-five pounds of ather on the way"

"And fire? Can we carry that?"

"We can take a supply of properly dried-out woods with punk I've already had practice enough, so I ought to be able to get fire at any time inside of half an hour"

"Weapons?"

"I'll hter That's the best we can do for the present, till we strike some ruin or other where a city used to be"

"And you're still bent on reaching Boston?"

"Yes I reckon we'reruin, the nearest place where we can refit and recoup the daet supplies and areneral take a fresh start If we can make ten miles a day, we can reach it in; ten days or less I think, all things considered, the Boston plan's the wisest possible one"

She gazed into the fire athe coals with a stick, said she: "All right, boy; but I've got a suggestion to make"

"What is it?"

"We'll do better to follow the shore all the way round"

"And double the distance?"

"Yes, even so You know, this shore is--or used to be--flat and sandybeaches and levels than we can through the forest And there's the matter of shell-fish to consider; and uide us We can't get lost, you understand With the exception of cutting across the shank of Cape Cod, if the cape still exists, we needn't ever get out of sight of salt water And it will bring us surely to the Hub"