Jamie and Andy sniffed.
"U-m-m!" from Jamie.
"Oh, she smells fine!" Andy breathed.
"Seems like I can't wait for un!" Jamie declared.
"She's done!" David at length announced.
"Make the tea, Andy." Using a stick as a lifter David removed the kettle of goose from the fire, while Andy put tea in the other kettle, which was boiling, removing it also from the fire.
"You bring the bread along, Jamie, and you the tea, Andy," David directed, turning into the cabin with the kettle of goose.
Lem had just awakened from a most refreshing sleep, and when he smelled the goose he declared: "I'm hungrier'n a whale." Doctor Joe laid claim also to no small appetite, an appetite, indeed, quite superior to that described by Lem.
"A whale!" he sniffed.

"Why, I'm as hungry as seven whales! Seven, now! Big whales, too! No small whales about _my_ appetite!" The three boys laughed heartily, and David warned: "We'll all have to be lookin' out or there won't be a bite o' goose left for anybody if Doctor Joe gets at un first!" Doctor Joe arranged a plate for Lem, upon which he placed a choice piece of breast and a section of one of David's loaves, which proved, when broken, to be light and short and delicious.

Then he poured Lem a cup of rich broth from the kettle, and while Lem ate waited upon him before himself joining the boys at the table.
"How are you feeling, Lem ?" asked Doctor Joe when everyone had finished and the boys were washing dishes.
"My head's a bit soggy and I'm a bit weak, and there's a wonderful pain in my right shoulder when I moves un," said Lem.

"If 'tweren't for my head and the weakness and the pain I'd feel as well as ever I did, and I'd be achin' to get after that thief Indian Jake.

As 'tis I'll bide my time till I feels nimbler." "Do you think you could let me fuss around that shoulder a little while ?" Doctor Joe asked.