So does father.

We talked of going to one of those places, when we first thought of travelling for his lung, but then they thought Florida would be better.

What is there good about Nassau?
Is it any better than this place ?" "Well," said I, "it's in the West Indies, and it's semi-tropical, and they have cocoa-nuts and pineapples and bananas there; and there are lots of darkeys, and the weather is always just what you want----" "I guess that's a little stretched," said Corny, and Rectus agreed with her.
"And it's a new kind of a place," I continued; "an English colony, such as our ancestors lived in before the Revolution, and we ought to see what sort of a thing an English colony is, so as to know whether Washington and the rest of them should have kicked against it." "Oh, they were all right!" said Corny, in a tone which settled that little matter.
"And so, you see," I went on, "Rectus and I thought we should like to go out of the country for a while, and see how it would feel to live under a queen and a cocoa-nut tree." "Good!" cried Corny.

"We'll go." "Who ?" I asked.
"Father and mother and I," said Corny, rising.

"I'll tell them all about it; and I'd better be going back to the hotel, for if the steamer leaves on Tuesday, we'll have lots to do." As we were walking homeward on the sea-wall, Rectus looked back and suddenly exclaimed: "There! Do you see that Crowded Owl following us?
He's been hanging round us all the afternoon.