The Swiss Family Robinson Told in Words of One Syllable

ck to The Nest. Fritz and I went once more to the wreck, and this time we brought off chests of clothes, pigs of lead, cart wheels, sacks of maize, oats, peas, and wheat. With

, and made them float bac

ere to greet us. My first care was to send for the sledge,

eap, to climb, and to throw stones straight at a mark, as all the

in length, and flung off one of them at the trunk of a young tree; the cord went round and round it in a coil and bound it so tight that I could have drawn it to me ha

day we made up our minds that we would all start on a tour. We rose at dawn, put the ass in the

e, he told them by what means we got the nuts, bu

but fall from th

arge nut fell at his feet. He made a start ba

oss to know how they could fall off the tree

id not hit the beast. He then took off his coat and threw it on the crab's head, while I made an end of him with an axe. I told

ey crack the n

the shell at the thin en

Wood, we sat down to make some more bowls and flasks to take back with us. Ernest had gone to

great wild boar!

laugh, and saw the two dogs come through a clump of brush wood, with our old sow fast by the ears. She did not seem to like the wa

nd set off to see what we can meet with." Ernest sat down with Frank, and we left them and my wife

said Jack, as he mad

ou found now

at it is, but it

ch I had tied a cord with a noose, and in my left hand a slight wand. I saw it first move its tail, and then draw its head from side to side, as if to look where the sound came from. I then threw the noose round its neck, drew it tight, got on its back with a leap and thrust the wand up its nose, which i

o dress some of the flesh of the land crab, but it was tough, and did not t