Some time or other, when we get in a pinch, the sail might do the pulling, leaving the rowers free to use their rifles." "Jest ez I might hev expected," said Sol in a tone of disgust.

"All ready for rest, fixed fur it most bee-yu-ti-ful-ly, an' told instead that I must go to work.

This world shorely ain't kind to a good man." Once more the staunch ship, "The Galleon," proved herself to be a treasure house.

They found in the lockers plenty of rope and stout cord, and they cut in the forest a stout young sapling which they made of the right length, peeled off the bark, and adjusted in rude fashion, as a mast.

They also made a boom and then rigged a single sail, somewhat after the fashion of the cat-boat of the present day.
This would have been an impossible task to them, had not "The Galleon" been so well provided with axes, saws, hammers, other valuable tools, and cord and nails.