out, I'll be pulling in a dandy fish."

"Wake me up when you do, and I'll start in. You get 'em worked-up like,
and then I'll show you how to do the trick. Up to now I've just been
playing possum, you know, but look out whenever I do get going."

"Bah! who's afraid?" scoffed the fat scout, finding a use for his
favorite expression, to show his contempt for the threat of Giraffe.

"But we've gone over a heap of ground during the five days we've been
afloat on this inland sea, haven't we, boys?" remarked Step Hen.

"I'd like to, know why you call it ground, when, we've been moving over
water all the time?" observed Davy, who was not as happy as most of his
chums, because this way of living offered him no chance to climb trees,
and hang from limbs, as was his favorite habit; and therefore time hung
heavy on his hands, so that he grew restless.

"Oh! well, it doesn't make any difference that I can see," replied Step
Hen; "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, they say. But we
have covered a heap of distance, you'll admit, Davy."

"Yes, and had lots of fun in the bargain," Allan put in.

"Thanks to the weather man for keeping things nice for us, and not
allowing any storm along," suggested Bumpus.

"Well, you may have reason to change your tune soon, old fellow," warned
Giraffe with an ominous shake of his head.