"It's great sport.

Won't you take me with you to the jungle ?" I didn't want him in the least, but if any one older asks right out to go with you, what can you do?
I am going to tell several things you won't believe, and this is one of them: He got off his horse, tied it to the fence, and climbed over after me.

He went on asking questions and of course I had to tell him.

Most of what he wanted to know, his people should have taught him before he was ten years old, but father says they do things differently in England.
"There doesn't seem to be many trees in the jungle." "Well, there's one, and it's about the most important on our land," I told him.

"Father wouldn't cut it down for a farm.