In winter , when the harbour is frozen over , there is n't any need of a light on the Big Half Moon , and we all move over to the mainland , and Claude and Mimi and Dick and I go to school . But as soon as spring comes , back we sail to our own dear island , so glad that we do n't know what to do with ourselves . The funny part used to be that people always pitied us when the time came for us to return . They said we must be so lonesome over there , with no other children near us , and not even a woman to look after us . Why , Claude and I were never lonesome . There was always so much to do , and Claude is splendid at making believe . He makes the very best pirate chief I ever saw . Dick is pretty good , but he can never roar out his orders in the bloodcurdling tones that Claude can . Of course Claude and I would have liked to have someone to play with us , because it is hard to run pirate caves and things like that with only two . But we used to quarrel a good deal with the mainland children in winter , so perhaps it was just as well that there were none of them on the Big Half Moon . Claude and I never quarrelled . We used to argue sometimes and get excited , but that was as far as it ever went . When I saw Claude getting too excited I gave in to him . He is a boy , you know , and they have to be humoured ; they are not like girls . As for having a woman to look after us , I thought that just too silly , and so did Claude . What did we need with a woman when we had Father ? He could cook all we wanted to eat and make molasses taffy that was just like a dream . He kept our clothes all mended , and everything about the lighthouse was neat as wax . Of course I helped him lots . I like pottering round .
He used XXXXX hear our lessons and tell us splendid stories and saw that we always said our prayers .
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