This is just a piece of land and the roots of this little tree won't hold it together long.
"The question is, should we go hunting for new members under those conditions?
Pretty soon we'll have a full patrol and no island under us; we'll be in the water.

That's perfectly agreeable to me and all the rest of us.

But does Keekie Joe know how to swim?
We really have no _grounds_ for forming a patrol.

See ?" "Do you call that an argument ?" Pee-wee thundered.

"It shows how much you know about geography because look at an ice cream soda! Does that corrode?
Let's hear you answer that?
Or erode or whatever you call it.