The Warriors from the North King Rinkitink was so much pleased with the Island of Pingaree that he continued his stay day after day and week after week, eating good dinners, talking with King Kitticut and sleeping.

Once in a while he would read from his scroll.

"For," said he, "whenever I return home, my subjects will be anxious to know if I have learned 'How to be Good,' and I must not disappoint them." The twenty rowers lived on the small end of the island, with the pearl fishers, and seemed not to care whether they ever returned to the Kingdom of Rinkitink or not.

Bilbil the goat wandered over the grassy slopes, or among the trees, and passed his days exactly as he pleased.
His master seldom cared to ride him.

Bilbil was a rare curiosity to the islanders, but since there was little pleasure in talking with the goat they kept away from him.