THE BOAT WAS ROWED AROUND TO A LITTLE BAY.Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on the Rolling Ocean.Page161
THE BOAT WAS ROWED AROUND TO A LITTLE BAY.Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on the Rolling Ocean.Page161
THE BOAT WAS ROWED AROUND TO A LITTLE BAY.Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on the Rolling Ocean.Page161
THE BOAT WAS ROWED AROUND TO A LITTLE BAY.
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on the Rolling Ocean.Page161
“No, I guess no one does,” said Mr. Brown. But he was mistaken about that. “Though if we stay until late this afternoon, as we may,” he went on, “Bunny and Sue will probably want to eat again.”
“I suppose so,” said his wife.
The voyagers wandered about the island, and in one place they found a small spring of water trickling down over the rocks in a little cataract. They drank this water in preference to some they had brought with them from the ship.
“Well, it’s time we began to think of going back, I guess,” said Mr. Brown, as the shadows began to lengthen toward the east.
“Yes,” said Mrs. Brown. “Look, they are starting to move theBeaconoff the sand bar, I believe!”
She pointed to the stranded steamer, from the funnel of which black smoke was pouring.
“They’re starting the engines,” said the sailor, Will Gand.
“And they’ll have her off soon, for it’s high water now,” added his mate.
“The ship won’t go away and leave us, will it?” asked Bunny.
“Of course not!” laughed his mother.
As they were getting ready to enter the boat to row back to the steamer one of the sailors cried:
“There! She’s off the bar! They’ve moved her!”
The others looked and saw theBeacondrawing away from the island. She was headed toward it when she ran on the bar of sand beneath the waves.
Then, as they still gazed, they saw the ship slowly swing about and head off and around the other way, going directly from the island. Faster and faster she began to move.
“Why! Why!” exclaimed Mrs. Brown. “They’re going away from us! They’re leaving us behind!”