to us all?"

"Now, my dear," said I to my wife, "it is your turn. What shall we say?"

"Let us call it The Nest," said she; and with that I gave each of my
young birds a glass of sweet wine.

"Here's to 'The Nest,'" said I; "and may we live long to bless the day
and the means that brought us here."

When the heat of the day was past, I told my sons that I should be glad
to take a walk with them. My wife said that she should like to go with
us; so we left The Nest in charge of Turk, and bent our course to the
banks of the stream. On our way we went past some shrubs and rare herbs,
which my wife knew well how to make use of should we fall sick; and
Ernest found a large spot of ground on which grew a fine kind of
PO-TA-TO. At these the boys set to work with such zeal, that we soon had
a full bag of the ripe fruit. We then went on to Tent House, which we
found in the same state as when we left it to cross the stream on our
way to the great tree.

We found that our ducks and geese had grown so wild that they would not
come near us; so, while my wife and I went to pick up such things as we
thought we might take back with us, Ernest and Fritz were sent to catch
them, and to tie their legs and wings, and in this way we got them at
last to The Nest.

CHAPTER VIII.

IT took the whole of the next day to make a sledge, to which we tied
the ass, and drove to Tent House. On our sledge we put such of the casks
which held food, and took them back to The Nest. Fritz and I went once
more to the wreck, and this time we brought off chests of clothes, pigs
of lead, cart wheels, sacks of maize, oats, peas, and wheat. With a
strong bar we broke down some of the doors, and took such parts of the
ship as we thought would aid us to build our house, which as yet was far
less safe than I could wish. These we bound with cords, and made them
float back at the stern of the raft.

When we got to the shore my wife and the three boys were there to greet
us. My first care was to send for the sledge, and with this we took most
of our new wealth up to The Nest.

The next day I told my sons that they must now learn to run, to leap, to
climb, and to throw stones straight at a mark, as all these things would
be of great use to them in their new mode of life.

I next taught them to use the LAS-SO, by means of which men catch the
wild horse on the vast plains of the New World. I tied two stones to the
ends of a cord some yards in length, and fl