CHAPTER XVI . A Day's Amusements—Tom Reveals a Secret—The Pirates take a Lesson —A Night Surprise—An Indian War
AFTER dinner all the g**g turned out to hunt for turtle eggs on the bar. They went about poking sticks into the sand, and when they found a soft place they went down on their knees and dug with their hands. Sometimes they would take fifty or sixty eggs out of one hole. They were perfectly round white things a trifle smaller than an English walnut. They had a famous fried-egg feast that night, and another on Friday morning.
THE PIRATES EGG MARKET
After breakfast they went whooping and prancing out on the bar, and chased each other round and round, shedding clothes as they went, until they were n***d, and then continued the frolic far away up the shoal water of the bar, against
