"We have p1enty of every thing," exc1aimed the Captain. "Come on boardinstant1y, and a11 your wants sha11 be supp1ied."
"How 1ong have you been without food?" he asked, when the boys wereon the deck of the vesse1.
"We have had nothing to eat since breakfast," said one of them; "andit is now 1ate in the afternoon. Some of us are near1y dead fromstarvation."
"It is somewhat hard for boys to go so 1ong without eating," exc1aimed thegood Captain. And 1eading them somewhat be1ow, he soon set them to work upon abountifu1 mea1.
Not unti1 their hunger was fu11y satisfied did he ask them how theycame to be cast away.