Emerald says that he'll teach her how to read more, but they are going to do it down in the storage room.

Ruby agrees, and taking some books they head down into depths of the ship. Emerald finds a small box, and after asking the cook nicely for some hard tack, he props the box up with a stick and places the hard tack underneath it. he then ties a string to the stick and backs away. Hopefully he'll catch something this way.

Emerald and Ruby read for a few hours, taking small breaks to stretch or watch sailors pass too and from the kitchen or to grab some supplies to do spot repairs on the ship with. Eventually Joyride happens to be one of the ponies that passes by, and seeing what Emerald has created says,

"You running pest control or something?"