The Swiss Family Robinson Told in Words of One Syllable

e: "Does it not seem, my dear, as if God had led us to

we can bear, and that if we stay here we may have to keep watch at night, for there are, no doubt, wild beasts of some

do not yet see how we can cross the strea

and cook some food, I made my plans known to them. They were all glad when the

ks; and Fritz, Ernest, and I went down to the shore, an

t to find out that what the sea gulls had just left was the huge fish he had shot in the sea. We cut off some rough skin, which we thought might serve for files, and then went back to the boat. I took a glance at the shore ere I got in, and to my great joy saw some of the planks and spars from the wreck lay on the ground not far off. Our next care was to bind these so as

I, "that our lot has been cast where we

built piers of stone in the stream, and put the planks one by one in the pla

sks, that we put round it. My wife and Fritz soon led the way; the cow went next; then the ass, with Frank on its back. Jack led the goats, and on the back of one of them sat the ape. Ernest took charge of the sheep, and I brought u

the grass. It made a loud noise, and shot out its quills at the dogs, and made them bleed. At this Jack shot at the beast, which fell dead on the spot. My wife's first thought wa

"If we can but fix our tent up there," I said, "we shall have no cause to dread, for no wild beasts can reach us." We sent Frank off to find sticks, with which to