or hair!"

"Why then, you must have a comb so soon as I can contrive one. But now
see the breakfast nature hath provided us withal!"

And who so full of pleased wonderment as she, particularly as regarded
the fruit which she pronounced delicious, but my shell-fish she showed
small liking for, though I found them eatable enough. Seeing her so
pleased I told her I hoped to provide better fare very soon, and
recounted my adventure with the goat.

"But," says she, "how shall you go a-hunting and no firearms?"

"With a bow and arrows."

"Have you found these also?"

"No, I must make them. I shall look out a sapling shaped to my purpose
and trim it with my knife. For the cord of my bow I will have leather
strips cut from my jerkin."

"Aye, but your arrows, Martin, how shall you barb them without iron?"

"True!" says I, somewhat hipped. But in that moment my eye lighted on
a piece of driftwood I had gathered for fuel and, reaching it, I laid
it at her feet. "There," says I, pointing to the heads of divers rusty
bolts that pierced it, "here is iron enough to arm a score of arrows."

"But how shall you make them, Martin?"

"Heat the iron soft and hammer it into shape."

"But you have neither hammer nor anvil."

"Stones shall do."

"O wonderful!" she cried.

"Nay, it is not done yet!" says I, a little shamefaced.

"And how may I help you?"

"Watch me work."

"Indeed and I will keep your fire going. So come let us begin."

Our meal done, I gathered twigs for kindling and a great pile of
driftwood of which was no lack, and with small boulders I builded a
fireplace against the cliff where we soon had a fire drawing merrily,
wherein I set my precious piece of timber. Having charred it
sufficiently I found it an easy matter to break out the iron bolts and
nails; five of them there were of from four to eight inches in length,
and though the ends were much corroded by the sea, there yet remained
enough sound iron for my purpose. And now, my bolts ready for the fire,
I began to look for some stone that might serve me for hammer, and my
companion likewise. Suddenly, as I sought and mighty diligent, I heard
her cry out to me, and beholding her leaning in the cave mouth, all
pale and trembling, came running:

"What is't?" cries I, struck by the horror of her look.

"O Martin!" she gasped. "O Martin--'tis in there--all huddled--in the
darkest corner! And I--I slept with it--beside me all night!" Coming
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