"You needn't think I'm coming ashore," called Pee-wee, "because I'm
not. Now we've got a full patrol and we're going to live here.
There's going to be a boat race next Saturday and I've got two new
ideas besides the ones I told you about and I bet I had more fun than
you did dancing and somebody's got to go ashore to-morrow and see this
feller's mother and father and tell them he's joined the scouts,
because he can't go home on account of not having four cigarettes."
Then the boys in the approaching boat could hear Pee-wee saying in a
lowered voice to Keekie Joe, "Don't you be scared of them because they
won't hurt you."
CHAPTER XXVI
SHORT AND TO THE POINT
Thus began the famous Alligator Patrol, so named because its home was
on the water as well as on the land, and also on the mud. Under its
flaunting traffic sign many adventures occurred that summer, but the
present narrative must be confined to the surprising events which
befell during Easter vacation. Later, in the good old summer time, we
shall visit the island again if we can find it.
It was a fortunate thing for Keekie Joe that Townsend Ripley was chosen
leader of the new patrol. And it was a fortunate thing for everybody
that Pee-wee was defeated by a large majority in the election of a camp
cook. It is true that every voice was raised for Pee-wee in this
stirring campaign when suddenly Townsend turned the traffic sign so it
said STOP and that was the end of Pee-wee's chances.
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