“Shipwrecked!” cried Bert. “You wouldn’t want that, would you?”
“Maybe. If we could live on an island like Robinson Crusoe,” Freddie answered, “that would be lots of fun.”
“Yes, but if we had to live on an island without anything to eat and no water to drink, that wouldn’t be so much fun,” said Nan.
“If it was an island there’d be a lot of water all around it—that’s what an island is,” Flossie said. “I learned it in geogogafy at school. An island has water all around it, my geogogafy says.”
“Yes, but at sea the water is salty and you can’t drink it,” Bert said. “I don’t want to be shipwrecked.”
“Well, maybe I don’t want to, either,” said Freddie, after thinking about it a little. “Anyhow we’ll have some fun!”
“Yes,” agreed Bert, “I guess I will.”
“Now I’m going to fish,” remarked Freddie.
“You won’t catch anything,” Bert said.
“Why not?” Freddie wanted to know, as he again took the ball of string from his pocket.