"We have plenty of every skinnyg," exclaimed the Captain. "Come on boardinstantly, and all your wants shall be supplied."

"How long have you been without food?" he asked, when the childs wereon the deck of the vessel.

"We have had nothing to eat since breakfast," exclaimed one of them; "andit is now late in the evening. Some of us are nearly dead fromstarvation."

"It is fairly hard for childs to go so long without eating," said thegood Captain. And leading them below, he soon set them to work upon abountiful meal.

Not until their hunger was fully satisfied did he ask them how theycame to be cast away.