I said, “I wouldn’t say for sure that I’m awake, but I think I am. Either that or I’ve gone crazy reading ‘Alice in Wonderland.’ Look! There’s the park! We’re about half a mile down the river.”
The inventor started shouting, “Oh, good, good, good! I’m glad. Maybe we’ll go across the ocean! Will we?”
“Nothing would surprise me,” Westy said. “I hope we’ll meet Sinbad, the sailor.”
“This car wouldn’t float,” Will Dawson said.
“It wouldn’t” I said; “but it does.”
“Open the window and look out,” Westy said.
“What did I tell you about yellow dogs?” Pee-wee shouted.
“Can I be the captain?” the inventor wanted to know. “Is it a ship?”
“Either that or an insane asylum,” I said.
“Look out of the window,” Westy said. “I see what happened. Come on, let’s look out from one of the doors. I know what happened all right!”