There was a dozen or more of round cakes, and a large apple-pie, which, as there were just eight of them, gave forty-five degrees to each one.

There was also a jug of milk, and a silver mug, which Forester's mother had lent them for the excursion, to drink out of.
The boys, whose appetites had been sharpened by their exertions in the portage of the boat round the falls, and in rowing, did not cease to eat until the provisions were entirely exhausted, and then they carried the empty basket back to the boat.

Soon after this, Forester summoned what he called a council of war, to consider the question whether they had better go down the river.

He said he wanted their true and deliberate judgment in the case.

He did not wish them to say what they would like, merely, but what they thought, on the whole, was best.