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us enough to make up for any short- 

 coming's of the food. 



Charming" Wife tried to pry up the 

 "Johnny cake" on the burnt side; it 

 was a mass of blackened corn meal. 

 Then she tried the other side ; it was 

 half cooked dough. She looked the 

 picture of woe ; tears of mortification 

 came to her eyes ; she swallowed hard a 

 couple of times, loked at the baker and 

 then turned such a look of scorn at 

 the Captain that he was almost undone. 

 Meantime Fat One came to the rescue 

 — some part between the burned spot 

 and the dough line was edible, pieces 

 of which he actually ate ; but much as 

 we loved eating we could not follow 

 his example. The Captain followed 

 Charming* Wife' glances with his eyes 

 and the secret was out — the back of 

 the baker was open and the heat which 

 should have been reflected up was al- 

 lowed to go out. Now the Captain is 

 willing but Charming Wife will not 

 speak to him or listen to any explana- 

 tion. 



Part of our supplies consisted of a 

 crate of eggs, and some of them must 

 have been well seasoned nest eggs. 

 Our party usually had soft boiled eggs 

 for breakfast. One morning every one 

 but Old Bill had eaten their supply ! 

 he seemed to be holding off" and filling 

 up on other things. Finally he came 

 to the eggs ; he reached out, selected 

 a fine looking one and broke it. We 



heard a few carelessly selected words 

 and saw an egg flying into the bushes 

 over his head. Not a word was spoken 

 by the rest of us. Old Bill tried again ; 

 this time we left the table with the 

 egg, being careful to take the opposite 

 direction. Not being easily dis- 

 couraged Old Bill looked over the rest 

 of the eggs carefully, broke another 

 one and one of the commandments at 

 the same time and left the table in 

 disgust. It was several days before 

 eggs were served again. 



Between being nicely bitten by mos- 

 quitoes, wdiich have a way of getting 

 in under nets supposed to keep them 

 out, and well burned by the sun, that 

 shines so hot on the water, we had a 

 fairly good time. 



Sometimes we tried to eat one item 

 of the bill of fare so hot we could 

 hardly handle it, and while it was 

 cooling off the rest of the meal got 

 stone cold ; but half an hour after the 

 meal was over, who cared for such 

 trifles! 



How good our pipes seemed as w~e 

 lounged in the shade of some tree. 

 How can a thing so delightful taste 

 so bad for a long time afterwards ? 



On our way home we ran on a reef, 

 and for a while it looked as if we would 

 have to swim for shore but patience 

 and plenty of muscle finally got us 

 free and on our way again. 



The last day we ran into a storm. 



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THE JOY OF HAVING 



