Then, if we want to stay, we can, and if we don't, we needn't." "All right," said Rectus.

"Let's be off to-morrow." The next morning, I went to buy the Oclawaha tickets, while Rectus staid home to pack up our handbags, and, I believe, to sew some buttons on his clothes.

He could sew buttons on so strongly that they would never come off again without bringing the piece out with them.
The ticket-office was in a small store, where you could get any kind of alligator or sea-bean combination that the mind could dream of.

We had been in there before to look at the things.

I found I was in luck, for the storekeeper told me that it was not often that people could get berths on the little Oclawaha steam-boats without engaging them some days ahead; but he had a couple of state-rooms left, for the boat that left Pilatka the next day.