At break of day I was waked by the crowing of the cock.

I summoned my wife to council, to consider on the business of the day.

We agreed that our first duty was to seek for our shipmates, and to examine the country beyond the river before we came to any decisive resolution.
My wife saw we could not all go on this expedition, and courageously agreed to remain with her three youngest sons, while Fritz, as the eldest and boldest, should accompany me.

I begged her to prepare breakfast immediately, which she warned me would be scanty, as no soup was provided.

I asked for Jack's lobster; but it was not to be found.
Whilst my wife made the fire, and put on the pot, I called the children, and asking Jack for the lobster, he brought it from a crevice in the rock, where he had hidden it from the dogs, he said, who did not despise anything eatable.
"I am glad to see you profit by the misfortunes of others," said I; "and now will you give up that large claw that caught your leg, and which I promised you, to Fritz, as a provision for his journey ?" All were anxious to go on this journey, and leaped round me like little kids.