"I wonder if the people here are dwarfs," said Mary. "There must be people. That's certain now."
"If they are dwarfs they must be more afraid of us than we are of them," said Elizabeth.
"Impossible!" said Tommy. "I was never in such a fright in my life. Oh!"
"What is it?" asked Elizabeth, with an anxious look around.
"The oranges! we haven't got any, and I shall be afraid to go there again."
"That's a pity," said Elizabeth; "they looked so nice. Perhaps we can find some in another part of the island."
"I won't look for any," said Tommy. "I won't stir from this place—at least not farther than to the bananas, and they're nearly all gone. What if the savages come and attack us?"
"Some of them have poisoned arrows," said Mary, quaking.
"Really, I think we are crying before we are hurt," said Elizabeth. "We haven't been molested so far, and surely that proves that whatever people there are, they are not very terrible."
"I know I shan't sleep a wink to-night," said Tommy.