"You have saved me that job." And into the bag went the terrapin, and two plump fish, but slightly mutilated.

Before he had gone many yards, back came the sailing wings, and the birds settled again before his eyes.

The rest of the low wood was but thin, and he soon emerged upon the open country; but it was most unpromising; and fitter for geese than men.

A vast sedgy swamp with water in the middle, thin fringes of great fern-trees, and here and there a disconsolate tree like a weeping-willow, and at the end of this lake and swamp, which all together formed a triangle, was a barren hill without a blade of vegetation on it, and a sort of jagged summit Hazel did not at all like the look of.

Volcanic! Somewhat dismayed at finding so large a slice of the island worthless, he returned through the wood, guiding himself due west by his pocket-compass, and so got down to the shore, where he found scallops and cray-fish in incredible abundance.