This is probably one of the most economical places in the world for garden mould.

You couldn't sweep up more than a bucketful out of a whole garden, and yet the things grow splendidly.

Rectus said he supposed the air was earthy.
Corny enjoyed this walk, because we went right into the houses and talked to the people, and bought cocoa-nuts off the trees, and ate the inside custard with a spoon, and made the little codgers race for pennies, and tried all the different kinds of fruits.

She said she would like to walk out with us always, but her mother said she must not be going about too much with boys.
"But there are no girls on the island," said she; "at least, no white ones,--as far as I have seen." I suppose there were white children around, but they escaped notice in the vast majority of little nigs.
The day after this walk, the shorter "yellow-legs" asked me to go out fishing with him.

He couldn't find anybody else, I suppose, for his friend didn't like fishing.