"
"I dare say you are right," said I; "but I do not yet see how we can
cross the stream. We shall first have to build a bridge."
The boys were now all out of their beds; and while my wife went to milk
the cow and cook some food, I made my plans known to them. They were
all glad when they heard that we were to leave, and each said he, would
help to build the bridge.
The first thing to be done was to find some strong planks; and Fritz,
Ernest, and I went down to the shore, and got in the boat, which the
tide took down to the bay.
On a piece of land which lay to the left we could see some large dark
thing, round which flew a flock of sea gulls. We put up a sail and
caught a gust of wind which had sprung up, and this soon brought the
boat to the spot. We made no noise, but crept up the shore step by
step, and we got so near that Ernest brought down some of the birds
with a stick. Fritz was the first to find out that what the sea gulls
had just left was the huge fish he had shot in the sea. We cut off some
rough skin, which we thought might serve for files, and then went back
to the boat. I took a glance at the shore ere I got in, and to my great
joy saw some of the planks and spars from the wreck lay on the ground
not far off. Our next care was to bind these so as to make a raft,
which we tied to the stern of the boat, and then, by the use of our
oars, soon made our way up the stream to the place where the bridge was
to be built.
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