noon
`` Say , nothing hard about this , '' George called out , as they headed once more down the bay toward Gargathy Inlet . `` Lots of things look harder than they turn out to be , '' answered Herb , who was having it easy enough in his wide-beamed craft . `` Still , be on your guard all the time , '' cautioned Jack , who meant to keep near the erratic _ Wireless _ all the time , because he felt it in his bones that if any accident did happen it would be in that quarter . At noon they drew up and went ashore on a sandspit , where they ate lunch . Nick of course `` browsed '' around , as he called it , in search of oysters , and was speedily rewarded by discovering a supply . Indeed , they had hard work making him break away , when Jack tooted his conch shell as the signal for a start . Matomkin Inlet proved as easy as the others .