one in the evening
And so without troubling himself with vain regrets of what he might have done or might not have done , he proceeded to fetch wood from his cave and to build a fire , and a good one it was to be , too , in the lee of his bowlder . And when the wood was crackling merrily he made a comfortable seat of boughs upon which to sit while he cooked and ate the one sea pigeon which he allowed himself . Bobby had never eaten a sea pigeon that seemed quite so small as that one , and it required a large degree of self-denial and self-restraint to observe the rule of economy which he had imposed upon himself on the evening he was wrecked . He had decided then that two sea pigeons a day , one in the morning and one in the evening , were all he could afford . For who could tell how long it might be before he would make his escape ? And there were no birds or other game to be had on the island at this season , and when those he had were gone there would be hungry days to face . Though he declared to himself when picking the last bone of his breakfast that he could never possibly be any hungrier than at that very moment .