Philippe shook his head.
"I want to do great things," he answered. "To travel, to have adventures."
The Englishman smiled.
"That is very natural," he remarked. He told his friend, the American, what the boy had said. His friend laughed.
"That sounds like an American boy," he said. "Ask him what he wants to do."
The Englishman asked Philippe this question.
The boy answered, "Oh, I should like to go to Antwerp (ănt´-w[~e]rp) and Ghent (gĕnt) and see the sights of Belgium, because I know so many stories about everything."
He then told them about his wandering friends, Tom and Zelie.
