We came away without our breakfast, and I, for one, feel hungry." "There's where we had the advantage of you," said Thomas.

"While you were hurrying around, and taking your positions, we were eating our breakfast.

You see, we took matters easy." "And beat us, after all," said one of the coast-guards; "it's too bad.
But let's have that committee appointed." A dozen boys were speedily chosen to set the table, and the others, catching up all the empty pails and baskets they could find, scattered over the island in search of strawberries.
In about an hour they met again under the tree, and found the refreshments all ready for them, and they fell to work in earnest.

So full were they of their sport, that it took them two hours to eat their dinner, as they had said they had come to enjoy themselves, and felt in duty bound to eat all their baskets contained.
After dinner, one of the smugglers proposed to go squirrel-hunting; but many of the coast-guards had passed the preceding night without any sleep, and, to use their own expression, they "didn't feel like it;" so this project was abandoned, and the boys lay on the grass, under the tree, telling stories, until almost three o'clock, and then began to get ready to start for home..