"This is an eider's nest." And so, hunting among the bushes and rocks, they soon had their bags filled with eider duck, tern, gull, and booby eggs, while the birds in hundreds flew hither and thither, violently protesting, with discordant notes, the invasion and the looting.

But the eggs were good to eat, and the boys smacked their lips over the feasts in store--and Mrs.Abel wanted them; that was the chief consideration, after all.
"Now," said Jimmy, "let's go over to the mainland and boil the kettle.
It's away past dinner time and I'm as hungry as a bear." "All right," agreed Bobby.

"I'm so hungry I've just got to eat.

Where'll we go ?" "I know a dandy place over here, and there's a brook coming in close to it where we can get good water.

It's just a few minutes' pull--just below the ledges." Ten minutes' strong rowing landed them on a gravelly beach near the mouth of a brook, which rushed down to the bay through a deep gulch.