"
"Did you go out in the boat by yourself?"
"No; I took Juno with me. She pulls very well, Ready."
"She is a handy girl, William. Well, we have had our survey, and there
will be plenty of work for you and me, I can tell you; I don't think we
can bring everything round in a week; so I suppose to-morrow we had
better be off."
"Well, I like boating better than ditching, I can tell you, Ready,"
replied William. "I shan't be sorry to leave that work to my father."
"I suppose it must fall to him; as he will, of course, prefer staying
with Mrs. Seagrave and the children."
As soon as they were at the tents, Ready hung up the pig to the cross
pole of the tent in which he and William and Mr. Seagrave slept, and
having propped the muskets up against the side of the tent, he went
with William to get his knife and some stretchers of wood to open the
pig with. While he and William were away, Caroline and Tommy came out
to look at it, and Tommy, after telling Caroline how glad he was that
they were to have roast pig for dinner, took up one of the muskets, and
said, "Now, Caroline, I'll shoot the pig."
"Oh! Tommy, you must not touch the gun," cried Caroline; "papa will be
very angry.
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