Let's go and look the place over first." They landed in a little cove on the beach adjoining the Government reservation.

Jed declared it a good place to make a fire, as it was sheltered from the wind.

He anchored the boat at the edge of the channel and then, pulling up the tops of his long-legged rubber boots, carried his passenger ashore.

Another trip or two landed the kettle, the materials for the chowder and the lunch baskets.
Jed looked at the heap on the beach and then off at the boat.
"Now," he said, slowly, "the question is what have I left aboard that I ought to have fetched ashore and what have I fetched here that ought to be left there?
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