The Colonel looked down over the bunk's side, and the men on the buffalo-skin looked up, and they all saw Kaviak sitting in bed, holding in one hand an empty muckluck by the toe, and in the other a half-eaten raw potato.
"Keep the rest of it to roast, anyhow, or O'Flynn's heart will be broken."
So they deprived Kaviak of the gnawed fragment, and consoled him by helping him to put on his new boots.
When the Little Cabin contingent came in to breakfast, "Hello! what you got up on the roof?" says Potts.
"Foot of earth and three feet o' snow!"
"But what's in the bundle!"
"Bundle?" echoes the Boy.
"If you put a bundle on the roof, I s'pose you know what's in it," says the Colonel severely.
The occupants of the two cabins eyed each other with good-humoured suspicion.
"Thank you," says the Boy, "but we're not takin' any bundles to-day."