awful warnings failed to counteract the satisfaction of our heroes
at finding themselves nearly back again in the region of blankets and
hot porridge. Bowler in the name of the party magnificently presented
Thomson with the odd shilling reserved for his benefit, and expressed
his sorrow it was not more. But, he added, if the "Eliza" ever turned
up, he might keep everything he found on board, including twelve tins of
shrimps and peaches, a bottle of hair-oil, a set of cricket bails, and a
copy of Young's _Night Thoughts_; whereat Thomson was moved with
gratitude, and said they were as nice a lot of articles as ever he came
across, and he did not mind saying so.

An hour later our heroes were all in bed, comfortable within and
without. They were let down easy for their day's escapade, and except
for colds more or less bad, and a decidedly augmented bill at the end of
the term to pay for a new "Eliza," as well as a regulation forbidding
all sea voyages of whatever kind, they suffered no further punishment
than the lessons of the day itself. To those lessons they added one
more of their own accord, by resolving unanimously, that from that day
forward they renounced all further claim to that eligible island
commonly known as New Swishford.

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