After much discussion, Dorothy decided that the very nicest and most unusual thing to do would be to go out in a boat for a row.
[45] "I think that will be perfectly lovely," declared Edna, who had been wavering in her own mind between a preference for the water and a drive behind the little pony.
"I'm sure I shall like it," Jennie said, "and we shall have a good time, I know. Mother always lets me go when we can get old Cap'n Si to take us, for he is perfectly safe and is such a funny old fellow.
"Who is he?" asked the others.
"He is an old fisherman who used to have a fishing vessel of his own, but now he is too old to go to the Banks, so he just fishes around a little, and takes people out rowing or sailing when they don't want to go too far. He lives in that little old house over on that point."
Dorothy and Edna looked to where she indicated and saw a little low brown house very near the water. They could distinguish someone sitting in the doorway.
"What is he doing?" asked Dorothy.
"He is mending his nets."
"How will he know we want him? Do we have to go over and tell him?"
"No, I will tell you how we manage. Come with me."