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"We've got the sandwiches Mother gave us for the journey," said Edot mine"

"Not "

"So were mine," said Susan

"Mine are in my coat-pocket, there on the beach," said Peter "That'll be two lunches a to be such fun"

"At present," said Lucy, "I want so to eat"

Everyone else now felt thirsty, as one usually is after wading in salt water under a hot sun

"It's like being shipwrecked," res of clear, fresh water on the island We'd better go and look for them"

"Does that o back into all that thick wood?" said Susan

"Not a bit of it," said Peter "If there are strea the beach we're bound to come to them"

They all noaded back and went first across the smooth, wet sand and then up to the dry, cru on their shoes and socks Edmund and Lucy wanted to leave the with bare feet, but Susan said this would be a ain," she pointed out, "and we shall want theins to be cold"

When they were dressed again they set out along the shore with the sea on their left hand and the wood on their right Except for an occasional seagull it was a very quiet place The as so thick and tangled that they could hardly see into it at all; and nothing in it moved - not a bird, not even an insect

Shells and seaweed and anemones, or tiny crabs in rockpools, are all very well, but you soon get tired of thee from the cool water, felt hot and heavy Susan and Lucy had raincoats to carry Edmund had put down his coat on the station seat just before the ic overtook thereat-coat

Presently the shore began to curve round to the right About quarter of an hour later, after they had crossed a rocky ridge which ran out into a point, it made quite a sharp turn Their backs were now to the part of the sea which had met the ahead, they could see across the water another shore, thickly wooded like the one they were exploring

"I wonder, is that an island or do we join on to it presently?" said Lucy

"Don't know," said Peter and they all plodded on in silence

The shore that they alking on drew nearer and nearer to the opposite shore, and as they came round each promontory the children expected to find the place where the two joined But in this they were disappointed They came to some rocks which they had to climb and from the top they could see a fairway ahead and - "Oh bother!" said Edet to those other woods at all We're on an island!"

It was true At this point the channel between them and the opposite coast was only about thirty or forty yards wide; but they could now see that this was its narrowest place After that, their own coast bent round to the right again and they could see open sea between it and the mainland It was obvious that they had already come much more than halfway round the island

"Look!" said Lucy suddenly "What's that?" She pointed to a long, silvery, snake-like thing that lay across the beach

"A stream! A stream!" shouted the others, and, tired as they were, they lost no ti to the fresh water They knew that the stream would be better to drink farther up, away from the beach, so they went at once to the spot where it came out of the wood The trees were as thick as ever, but the streahyou could follow it up in a sort of tunnel of leaves They dropped on their knees by the first brown, dimply pool and drank and drank, and dipped their faces in the water, and then dipped their arms in up to the elbow

"Now," said Edmund, "what about those sandwiches?"

"Oh, hadn't we better have them?" said Susan "We may need them far worse later on"