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In the evening the hunters returned, having enjoyed good sport, and being literally loaded with game; indeed, they had as much as four men could possibly carry. Top wore a necklace of teal and Jup wreaths of snipe round his body.
“Here, master,” cried Neb; “here’s something to employ our time! Preserved and made into pies we shall have a welcome store! But I must have some one to help me. I count on you, Pencroft.”
“No, Neb,” replied the sailor; “I have the rigging of the vessel to finish and to look after, and you will have to do without me.”
“And you, Mr. Herbert?”
“I must go to the corral to-morrow, Neb,” replied the lad.
“It will be you then, Mr. Spilett, who will help me?”
“To oblige you, Neb, I will,” replied the reporter; “but I warn you that if you disclose your receipts to me, I shall publish them.”
“Whenever you like, Mr. Spilett,” replied Neb; “whenever you like.”
And so the next day Gideon Spilett became Neb’s assistant and was installed in his culinary laboratory. The engineer had previously made known to him the result of the exploration which he had made the day before, and on this point the reporter shared Harding’s opinion, that although he had found nothing, a secret still remained to be discovered!
The frost continued for another week, and the settlers did not leave Granite House unless to look after the poultry-yard. The dwelling was filled with appetizing odors, which were emitted from the learned manipulation of Neb and the reporter. But all the results of the chase were not made into preserved provisions; and as the game kept perfectly in the intense cold, wild duck and other fowl were eaten fresh, and declared superior to all other aquatic birds in the known world.
During this week, Pencroft, aided by Herbert, who handled the
sailmaker’s needle with much skill, worked with such energy
that the sails of the vessel were finished. There was no want of
cordage. Thanks to the rigging which had been discovered with the
case of the balloon, the ropes and cables from the net were all of
good quality, and the sailor turned them all to account. To the
sails were attached strong bolt ropes, and there still remained
enough from which to make the halyards, shrouds, and sheets, etc.
The blocks were manufactured by Cyrus Harding under
Pencroft’s directions by means of the turning lathe. It
therefore happened that the rigging was entirely prepared before
the vessel was finished. Pencroft also manufactured a flag, that
flag so dear to every true American, containing the stars and
stripes of their glorious Union. The colors for it were supplied
from certain plants used in dyeing, and which were very abundant in
the island; only to the thirty-seven stars, representing the
thirty- seven States of the Union, which shine on the American
flag, the sailor added a thirty-eighth, the star of “the
State of Lincoln,” for he considered his island as already
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