The worst of it was that none of them could hide the fact.

The eleventh day came, and with it came an excitement.

Tom was the first to wake, and without waiting for the others, he proceeded to make his breakfast off an ear of raw corn, which was almost hard enough to grind, and altogether too hard to be eaten as green corn at any well-regulated table.

Tom ate it, however, having nothing better, and when Judie waked he offered her a softer ear, which he had carefully selected and laid aside.

Judie tried but couldn't eat it.