every which way but it stayed right side up anyway and do you think I'd
desert the ship? By the time we flopped downstream this far the tide
was so low that our little old roots dragged the bottom and we stopped
for keeps. So here we are till the tide comes in anyway. I don't know
whether we'll float in deep water or not, or whether we'll capsize in
deep water or not and I don't know anything about international law,
but a life on the ocean wave for _me_."

"I know all about international law," Pee-wee shouted. "Real estate is
in a certain place, isn't it? If a man owns real estate it's bounded
by something, isn't it? Well, then, if it isn't bounded by those
things any more how can it belong to that same man? If a man owns land
in a certain place and it stops being in that place, whose is it?"

"Search me," said Roly Poly.

"Besides I've got an inspiration; do you know what those are?" Pee-wee
vociferated.

"Have you got it with you?"

"_Sure_ I've got it with me! Don't I always have them with me?"

Roly Poly seemed amused.

"There are two kinds of scouts, aren't there?" Pee-wee asked
vociferously. "Regular scouts and sea scouts. Sea scouts are supposed
to live on the water and regular scouts are supposed to live under the
trees, like. So we can do both and we'll be combination scouts. We'll
be the Combination Scouts of America, hey? Will you?"