"I was--I was thinking about it," Pee-wee suddenly burst forth like a
cyclone, "and there are a lot of things we can do--I've got a lot of
ideas--there are seven things and we can do any one of them!"

"Why not do them all?" Ripley asked.

"That's just what _I_ say," Pee-wee shouted.

"Or we can each do a different thing," Ripley suggested. "There are
just seven of us. Anything suits me."

"Do you want to know how I discovered it?" Pee-wee said excitedly.

"No, as long as we know it's discovered, that's enough," said Ripley.

"I discovered it, then he discovered me," said Pee-wee, "but I'm the
discoverer because it wasn't an island when he got on it, see. Anyway,
that man can't take it, can he? So will you start a patent combination
patrol? And I vote for you to be the leader!"

"Let's see if we can't start the island," suggested Ripley.

"We don't want to start a Bridgeboro patrol and then find that we're in
Southbridge!" said one of the boys whom the others called Nuts.

"Oh, I don't see why not," drawled Townsend; "trouble is," he added,
glancing casually about, "we can't go on any hikes. If we start
skirting the coast we'll get dizzy."