Schillie rose up in a huff.
"Come," said I, "let us all go and have a dip in the sea."
We all agreed to this, and we also agreed we would make an extensive bathing place, where we could learn to swim, and yet be out of harm from the sharks. In this matter every one helped. We rolled stones down to the water, and then, placed them so as to form a wall or pier into the sea, at twenty yards distance; from that we made another, and we sloped them so as to make their ends nearly meet. "Thus," as Oscar said, "leaving only room for a baby shark to get in."
"And we shall not mind that," said Zoë, "for it would not have cut its teeth."
It took us two or three days to do this, but that evening at tea, being heartily fatigued, we agreed to sit still and talk over all we should do.
"Oscar and I intend to fish all day," said Felix, "and you may be very much obliged to us, because it's very—"
"Very what, Felix," said his sister, who loved to tease him, "very tiresome, I suppose you mean."
"No; not tiresome exactly, but very fatiguing."
"Oh very fatiguing indeed, I dare say, and you know you would cry like a baby if any one prevented you fishing."
"Lilly, you are so aggravating, I wish Winny was my sister, that I do, for she is so kind, and it's hard the only sister I have should tease me in this manner."