"Where?" Sue asked.
"On the pirate island! Come on! All ashore!"
CHAPTER XXIV
THE ALLIGATORS
Bunny and Sue had, indeed, landed on an island in Squaw River. Or if they had not exactly landed as yet, they were soon going to. For their raft, floating downstream, had, as Sue expressed it, "bunked" on the shore of a patch of land in the middle of the stream, forming an island.
As you learned in school, an island is a "body of land entirely surrounded by water." That's what the place was where Bunny and Sue had come. Water was all around the little patch of land, on which grew several trees.
"All ashore!" cried Bunny again, as he had often heard his father or Bunker Blue call when the fishing boats reached the dock. "All ashore!"
"Are we going to stay here long?" asked Sue, as she got up and brushed the crumbs of bread and cake from her lap.
"Yes," Bunny answered, "we'll stay here all day and all night. We'll make believe we're regular pirates!"