So go on, and tell us all about what you've done to-day." "All right!" cried Billy.

"Now, then, messmet, she's nearly through.
Now haul, my son.

Hauly, hi, ho!" Billy's fellow-traveller hauled at the bird's leg; but that bird was rather overdone.

Mrs Strong, aided by Mary O'Halloran as cook and kitchen-maid, had done their best in the rock kitchen with a fire of cocoa-nut shells and barks; but some piled-up pieces of coral and basalt, though they are great helps, do not form a patent prize kitchener; and though the result was very tempting to hungry men, there was a want of perfection in the browning of that bird.

In fact here and there it was a bit burned, notably in its right leg--the one Billy's companion held--and that leg was so horribly charred that when the man hauled it snapped off like a burned stick, and the bird, by the recoil and drag, came right into Billy's lap.
"What are you up to now ?" cried the latter.