Why didn't you drift down as far as Southbridge where the taxes aren't so high ?" "I was--I was thinking about it," Pee-wee suddenly burst forth like a cyclone, "and there are a lot of things we can do--I've got a lot of ideas--there are seven things and we can do any one of them!" "Why not do them all ?" Ripley asked.
"That's just what _I_ say," Pee-wee shouted.
"Or we can each do a different thing," Ripley suggested.

"There are just seven of us.

Anything suits me." "Do you want to know how I discovered it ?" Pee-wee said excitedly.
"No, as long as we know it's discovered, that's enough," said Ripley.
"I discovered it, then he discovered me," said Pee-wee, "but I'm the discoverer because it wasn't an island when he got on it, see.

Anyway, that man can't take it, can he?
So will you start a patent combination patrol?
And I vote for you to be the leader!" "Let's see if we can't start the island," suggested Ripley.
"We don't want to start a Bridgeboro patrol and then find that we're in Southbridge!" said one of the boys whom the others called Nuts.
"Oh, I don't see why not," drawled Townsend; "trouble is," he added, glancing casually about, "we can't go on any hikes.

If we start skirting the coast we'll get dizzy." "I know what we can do," said Pee-wee, "because, gee whiz, we've got to have exercise, that's one sure thing.