The shock had scarcely wakened the boy, and, knowing nothing of ship-wrecks, he had just shut his eyes and gone to sleep again.
"Dick, Dick!" she said, shaking him.
He yawned and sat up, and then threw himself down again saying, "Dick sleepy." "Yes, but Dick must wake up, and Auntie" (he called her "auntie") "will take him up on deck to look for Mummy.

Won't it be nice to go on deck in the dark." "Yes," said Dick, with confidence; and Augusta took him on her knee and hurried him into such of his clothes as came handy, as quickly as she could.

On the cabin-door was a warm little pea-jacket which the child wore when it was cold.

This she put on over his blouse and flannel shirt, and then, by an after-thought, took the two blankets off his bunk and wrapped them round him.

At the foot of the nurse's bed was a box of biscuits and some milk.