Like Charles, they had been punished enough, and with some good advice they were permitted to depart.

How they made peace with their parents I cannot say; but probably many of them "had to take it." As for Tim Bunker, he did not show his face in Rippleton again, but made his way to Boston, where he shipped in a vessel bound for the East Indies; and everybody in town was glad to get rid of him.
Thus ended the famous "camping out" of the Rovers.

It was a very pleasant and romantic thing to think about; but the reality was sufficient to effect a radical cure, and convince them that "yellow-covered books" did not tell the truth.
At three o'clock the boys reassembled, and the crews were organized and officers selected.

By a unanimous vote, Frank Sedley was chosen commodore of the fleet.

The next morning the Butterfly was repaired, and the squadron made its first voyage round the lake.
But as the rest of the week was occupied in drilling, and the maneuvers were necessarily imperfect, I pass over the time till the August vacation, when the fleet made a grand excursion up Rippleton River..