"
"Will you please stop talking about prunes?" said Townsend.
"I know, but seven or eight----"
"Will you please not mention the word ate?" said Townsend. "They ought
to be thankful he left the lawn."
"What did his father say over the 'phone?" one asked.
"Oh, he didn't seem to worry," said Townsend. "He knows that the
island is on a scow and that the river is small and that his son always
lands right side up; that's what he said. I told him the island would
come up with the tide and that we'd wait here and row out when he came
in sight. He said there was no danger, that the discoverer is always
lucky."
"Oh, he's lucky," said Brownie.
"Nothing short of an earthquake can capsize the island," Townsend said.
"He's a whole earthquake in himself," said Billy.
"More than that," said Shorty. "If I owned a restaurant I wouldn't
leave it around, not unless there were buildings on both sides of it."
"And a weight on the top," said Brownie.
"Oh, that goes without saying," said Shorty.
"The blamed thing can't sink, can it?" Billy asked.
"I don't know how heavy his nine ideas are," said Townsend. "They
would be the only thing that could sink it."
"We'll reach him easy as pie----"
"Please don't say that word," Townsend pled.
"I think I see the lantern now," said Billy.
"I was afraid he might have eaten that----"
"I could eat it myself," said Roly Poly.
"It's probably all you get," said Townsend.
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