"This sight
is enough to inspire any one. It ought to make us set to our work with
a good heart!"

"Right you are," responded Eric, who was equally impressed with the
magic scene--in spite of his disclaimer about having seen a better
sunrise in antarctic seas. "As soon as we've had breakfast, for I
confess I feel peckish again--it's on account of going to bed so early,
I suppose!--I'm ready to bear a hand as your assistant and help you with
the garden. But, who shall be cook? One of the two of us had better
take that office permanently, I think; eh, Fritz?"

"You can be, if you like," said the other. "I fancy you have got a
slight leaning that way, from what I recollect of you at home."

"When I used to bother poor old Lorischen's life out of her, by running
into the kitchen, eh?"

"Yes, I remember it well."

"Ah, that was when I was young," said Eric, laughing. "I wouldn't do it
now, when I am grown up and know better!"

"Grown up, indeed! you're a fine fellow to talk of being of age with
your seventeen years, laddie!"

"Never mind that," retorted Eric; "I mayn't be as old as you are; but,
at all events, I flatter myself I know better how to cook than a sub-
lieutenant of the Hanoverian Tirailleurs!"

So saying, the lad proceeded to make a fire and put the kettle on in
such a dexterous manner that it showed he was to the manner born, so to
speak; Fritz helping to aid the progress of the breakfast by fetching
water from a pool which the cascade had hollowed out for itself at the
point where it finally leapt to level ground and betook itself to the
sea in rivulet fashion.

The brothers only trenched on their stores to the extent of getting out
some coffee and sugar, the remains of their supper being ample to
provide them with their morning meal; and, after partaking of this,
armed with their wheelbarrow and other agricultural implements, besides
a bag of potatoes and some seed for planting, they sallied forth from
the hut in the direction of the penguin colony.

Here, the Tristaner told them, they would find the best spot for a
garden, the soil being not only richer and easier to cultivate but it
was the only place that was free from rock, and not overrun by the
luxuriant tussock-grass which spread over the rest of the land that was
not thicket.

Proceeding to the right-hand side of the cliff under which their hut was
built, they descended the somewhat sloping and broken ground that led in
the dire