He called the birds habitat his "poultry yard," seeming to be quite unmindful of his mishap there the previous year; although now, as the penguins had not begun regularly to sit yet, they were not so noisy or troublesome as when he then intruded on their domain.

Besides, as the sailor lad argued, the eggs were uncommonly good eating, and well worth risk getting them.
September came; and the brother crusoes were all agog with excitement, watching for the expected coming of the old Yankee skipper.
"Do you know what to-day is ?" asked Fritz one morning, as Eric woke him up in turning out.
"What a fellow you are for dates!" exclaimed the other.

"You ought to go and live in the East, where they cultivate them, brother! No, I can't say I recollect what day it is.

Tuesday, is it not ?" "I don't mean that," said Fritz petulantly.

"I alluded to the sort of anniversary, that's all." "Anniversary of what ?" "Our landing here last year," replied Fritz.
"Oh, I forgot that!" exclaimed Eric.
"It strikes me you forget a good many things," said his brother in his dry way.