Then he looked at the leaves and clay that were packed over them, and thought he would get some just the same.
This going a-nutting in fairyland was real fine fun, and to have heard their merry voices, talking and laughing and singing, with every now and then Briton's great bass "Wowff!" and Veevee's shrill "Wiff!" no one would have taken them for castaways and Crusoes.
Nutting made everyone so hungry too! Rabbits were very plentiful on the island.

The boys caught them by means of snares made of a kind of tough creeper.

And bonny Flossy caught as many fish as would have kept a large family alive.
Tom seldom used his rifle, though he always carried it.

The cartridges were too precious to waste.
Another thing which these Crusoes had to be very careful to do was never to let the fire go out.

It was easily kept in by placing a kind of mossy peat among the hot ashes and covering it quite over.
* * * * * So they collected an immense quantity of nuts, and these were placed in holes found in the rocks, and covered right up with the same sort of cement as the squirrels used.