My dear wife's foot and leg were gradually improving; and I took the opportunity of her confinement, to reason with her on her false notion of the dangers of the sea, and to represent to her the gloomy prospect of our sons, if they were left alone in the island.

She agreed with me, but could not resolve to leave it; she hoped God would send some vessel to us, which might leave us some society; and after all, if our sons were left, she pointed out to me, that they had our beautiful pinnace, and might at any time, of their own accord, leave the island.
"And why should we anticipate the evils of futurity, my dear friend ?" said she.

"Let us think only of the present.

I am anxious now to know if the storm has spared my fine kitchen-garden." "You must wait a little," said I."I am as uneasy as you, for my maize-plantations, my sugar-canes, and my corn-fields." At last, one night, the storm ceased, the clouds passed away, and the moon showed herself in all her glory.

How delighted we were! My wife got me to remove the large planks I had placed before the opening, and the bright moonbeams streamed through the branches of the tree into our room; a gentle breeze refreshed us, and so delighted were we in gazing on that sky of promise, that we could scarcely bear to go to bed, but spent half the night in projects for the morrow; the good mother alone said, that she could not join in our excursions.