"The steward," said he,
"has left with the other men, and when my mother wakes she will ask why
the children have had no breakfast. What can I do?"
"I think you can milk one of the goats if I show you how, while I go
and get the other things ready; I can leave the deck, for you see the
ship steers herself very nicely; - and, William, I have sounded the
well just before you came up, and I don't think she makes much water;
and," continued he, looking round him, and up above, "we shall have
fine weather, and a smooth sea before night."
By the united exertions of Ready and William the breakfast was prepared
while Mrs. Seagrave still continued in a sound sleep. The motion of the
ship was now very little: she only rolled very slowly from one side to
the other; the sea and wind had gone down, and the sun shone brightly
over their heads; the boat had been out of sight some time, and the
ship did not go through the water faster than three miles an hour, for
she had no other sail upon her than the main-topgallant sail hoisted up
on the stump of the foremast. Ready, who had been some time down in the
cabin, proposed to Mr. Seagrave that Juno and all the children should
go on deck.
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