"Let's go and see him, sometime, and ask him about it." This was thought to be a good idea, and we agreed to consider it at our next meeting.
"As to revenue," said Rectus, just before we reached the hotel, "I don't believe these people have much money to give for the support of a queen, and so I think they ought to bring in provisions.

The whole thing might be portioned out.

She ought to have so many conchs a week, so many sticks of sugar-cane, and so many yams and other stuff.

This might be fixed so that it wouldn't come hard on anybody." Corny said she guessed she'd have to get a little book to put these things down, so that we could consider them in order.
I could not help noticing that there was a good deal of difference between Corny and Rectus, although they were much alike, too.

Corny had never learned much, but she had a good brain in her head, and she could reason out things pretty well, when she had anything in the way of a solid fact to start with.