"Are you there?" cried a bright, fresh, girlish voice.
"At the laburnum tree," answered Alfy.
"Oh! Do be quick," answered Edie. "We are so hungry. All the bread and butter and things that were left are spoiled by the water. And we have nothing to eat!"
"And we have not much," said Mansy; "the sitiwation is really getting serious!"
CHAPTER III.
THE YOUNG NAVIGATOR.
he first thing is to get up to the house," said Alfy. "I shall have to jump into the water and wade, after all, Mansy."
"I couldn't permit it, Master Alfy, indeed I couldn't!" replied his nurse decidedly.