“We burned the last of our bunk-boards this morning.”

“Gracious! How much wood?”

“Oh, two or three barrels.”

“All right. But won’t it overbalance your dory?”

“L’ave that to me. And have you some vegetables, say a barrel of potatoes——”

“Sure. And where’ll you put them?”

“In the dory. And a barrel of odds and ends—turnips and cabbage and——”

“And that in the dory, too?”

“In the dory—where else? And a tub of butter, and a case or two of canned beef, and a bit of fresh beef, and some coffee and tea, and a box of hard bread——”

“And all in the——”