Bunting, if she had any sense of fairness at all, would concede this.
If the good old rule of findings is keepings applied to monarchs it
certainly applied to Boy Scouts. So Pee-wee prepared to set sail and
formally take possession of his discovery. He would sail around it as
Columbus had sailed around the coast of Cuba. . . .

Entering the troops' deserted old car he got the oars of the old flat
bottom boat belonging to the troop. He also procured a black marking
stick used for marking scout signs on rocks, and a pasteboard target on
the back of which he printed in ostentatious lettering.


THIS DESERT ISLAND IS DISCOVERED
BY WALTER HARRIS AND ALL PRETAINING
TO IT INCLUDING APPLES AND
EVERYTHING AND OTHER KINDS OF
FOOD AND WILD ANIMALS IF THERE
ARE ANY ALSO PRESIOUS METTLES AND
ALL NATIVES MUST SWEAR TO WALTER
HARRIS I MEAN THEY MUST SWEAR
ALLEAGANCE AND SAID WALTER
HARRIS SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT OF
SETTLEMENT.

P. S. ESPECIALLY APPLES.


Having thus established his rights according to the most historical
rule for the acquisition of new territory, Pee-wee set sail in his
gallant bark and after an uneventful voyage of seven minutes drew his