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Benjy sniffed several times before explaining. "Ship was wrecked t'pieces out on the sea at the start of summer. Burrom the hedgehog was hurled bad by a falling mast, but she clung to it an' pulled us aboard with her. Figgs too, though she was just born; don't know what happened to Figgs's mother. We got washed through the rocks into the cove; been living here all through summer. The Bellmaker

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263 Poor Burrom never really got over that mast falling on her. She was mixed up all the time, talking strange." Benjy shuddered hugely, as if fighting back more tears. Finnbarr kept him talking as a distraction. "How long's she been like that... I mean ..." The young squirrel pulled himself together gallantly. "You mean dead? Since last full moon, though I couldn't tell Wincey and Figgs. They kept wanting to see her, but I told them she was sleeping/'

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"But you said father," Joseph interrupted. "Burrom was a female?" The young squirrel smiled through his tears. "That was Wincey's idea. She never knew her father, so she thought it would be nice to call Burrom father. I told Figgs we were her family, brothers and sisters. She's too small to know any different." To cheer him up Rosie chuckled, "Well I'm a mother and you can count on me, though you'll have lots of fathers aboard Pearl Queen, brothers too. Hmm, should've brought more sisters along with us!" When they got back to the ship, Foremole had made beds up for Wincey and Figgs in the crew's accommodation. Joseph settled down on the hatch covers with Benjy close by, and they lay watching the stars, like silver pins, holding up the dark, velvet canopy of the night sky. Joseph outlined his plans for them. "We're sailing in the morning, right after breakfast. I think you and your sisters would be better off coming along with us, Benjy. What d'you think?" "I think that's the best thing too, sir. I'll have to tell Wincey and Figgs that Burrom won't be coming along. It'll be difficult, 'specially for little Figgs."