"I tell you what we can do," said Pee-wee; "we can penetrate the
interior, then we'll always be in the same place."

So they penetrated the interior and sprawled on the ground and chatted.

"When we find another member," said Pee-wee, "we'll have a full patrol
and then we'll have to start a scout record and write down a
description of the island and everything we see, because scouts have to
do that because they have to be observant and they have to be accurate
when they describe things."

"Would you say that this little tree is near the west coast of the
island?" Townsend asked. "I've followed it around for the last half
hour and I don't know where it is except it's here."

"Here isn't a place," said Roly Poly.

"Sure it is," shouted Pee-wee; "here is just as much a place as there."

"More," said Townsend. "There are three places--here, there, and
everywhere; I've often heard them spoken of."

"That's just where this island is," said Brownie.

"Absolutely," said Townsend, "only it won't stay there. Is there
anything more we can eat? Anything more that you don't have to _make_?
My long tramp in search of the west coast has made me hungry again."

"I can make flapjacks," said Pee-wee; "I've got eight pounds of Indian
meal."