They won't come out much until the sun returns." "Fancy," cried Aralia, clapping her hands, "Fancy all of us sleeping all night long--three months, didn't you say, Tom?
Wouldn't it be nice?
And if Uncle Staysail should come in to wake us in the morning! 'Get up,' he would say, 'are you going to sleep all day ?'" They all laughed at the idea, but it was not carried out.

Besides the candles, which they only burned at supper and after, they had torches made of wood which they could burn at any time.

Moreover, there was the light of the camp fire, which they kept always burning, for they had laid in a vast store of peat and wood.
* * * * * Tom was time-keeper.

He had a little log-book in which he had been careful to note down day and date every morning, and, like a good lad, he never forgot to wind his watch.

He made a really first-class Crusoe.
But they were all good.