"Gently lad.

Your affectionate plan, I'm afraid, would sometimes interfere with the progress of our work; but talking of that, as the vessel has now disappeared, there's no use in our standing here any longer looking at the sea.

Suppose we begin to make ourselves at home and arrange our things in the snug little cottage which our good friends have built for us ?" "Right you are!" responded Eric, starting off towards the cliff, under the lee of which the Tristaner had directed the hut to be built, so that it might be sheltered from the strong winds of the winter, which would soon have blown it down had it been erected in a more exposed situation.
Fritz followed more leisurely to the level plateau by the waterfall, where stood their cottage.
Here, arresting his footsteps, he remained a moment surveying the little domain before joining his brother, who had already rushed within the building.
That boy was all impulse: always eager to be doing something! The territory of the young crusoes was of limited dimensions.

Extending about a mile laterally, it was bounded on either side by lofty headlands that projected into the sea, enclosing the narrow strip of beach that lay between in their twin arms.

The depth of the valley inwards was even more confined by a steep cliff, down whose abrupt face slipped and hopped through a gorge, or gully, a little rivulet.