"We'll be promoting emigration from the old country after the war is over if we show the youngsters all the attractions that Uncle Sam has to offer."
"There'll be a lot of them come over anyway so they might as well learn what they'll see when they arrive."
"I see heaps of opportunities in that idea," said Roger. "There's a chance to teach the kiddies something by these books if we're careful to be truthful in the pictures we put in."
"Not to make monkeys swinging down the forests of Broadway, eh?" laughed Tom.
"If I'm to do a million or two of these you'll all have to help me get the pictures together," begged James.
"I've brought some with me you can have for a starter," said Della, "and I'm collecting others and keeping them in separate envelopes—animals in one and buildings in another and so on. It will make it easier for you."
"Muchas gracias, Señorita," bowed James, who was just beginning Spanish and liked to air a "Thank you" occasionally.
"I know what I'm going to make for some member of my family," declared Roger.
"Name it, it will be such a surprise when it comes."
"Probably it will go to Grandmother Emerson so I don't mind telling you that I think I'll write a history of our summer at Chautauqua and illustrate it."