They'd think we had started a retail piratical establishment.
We now took leave of the queen, and enjoined her neighbor to impress on her mind the necessity of not using her capital to lay in a new stock of goods.

Leaving a quarter of a dollar with her, for contingent expenses during the day, we started for home.
"I'll tell you what it is," said I, "we must settle this matter of revenue pretty soon.

If she don't sell peppers and sugar-cane, she'll have to be supported in some way, and I'm sure we can't do it." "Her subjects ought to attend to that," said Rectus.
"But she hasn't got any yet," I answered.
"That's a fact," said Corny.

"We must get her a few, to start with." "Hire 'em, do you mean ?" asked Rectus.
"No; call upon them in the name of their country and their queen," she replied.
"I think it would be better, at first," said I, "to call upon them in the name of about twopence a head.

Then, when we get a nice little body of adherents to begin with, the other subjects will fall in, of their own accord, if we manage the thing right." "There's where the emissary will come in," said Rectus.