"I don't want any breakfast," answered Ethan. "I don't feel as though we could spare the time for eating."
"Haste and waste," added Lawry, laughing. "We have got a great deal of hard work to do, and we must keep our strength. For my part, I'm hungry."
"I'm not; and I'm so interested in this job that I don't like to leave. We ought to have brought our breakfast down with us."
"I don't think we shall make anything by driving the work too hard. We must keep cool, and do it well. Besides, I'm liable to be called off a dozen times a day."
"What for?"
"To take people over the ferry."
"Oh, bother!" exclaimed Ethan impatiently. "Have we got to leave the work to paddle everybody that comes along over the lake?"
"We have," said Lawry. "I must look out for the family now."
There was a good wind, and the boys returned to the ferry-house in the bateau. Before they had finished their breakfast, the ferry-horn sounded, and Lawry was obliged to take a team over to Pointville before the work could be resumed. Ethan was rather impatient under this delay; but he was too kind-hearted to make any unpleasant remark which would remind his friend of his father's crime.