“Oh very well,” Hervey said, “I was just going to give you a free ride.”
“A free seat is good enough for me,” the kid said.
“I second the motion,” Warde said.
“There isn’t going to be any motion,” I said, quoth I. “This is going to be a case of sitting still.”
“Follow your leader,” Hervey said.
“What are you going to do? Stand on your head on the railing?” I asked him.
He just vaulted up onto the railing of the bridge and we all did the same and sat there swinging our legs and waiting for the fishing boat and singing those rhymes and changing them around. Pretty soon we were all shouting:
Don’t fall in the creek for the water’s quite wet,
But think of the fish that we’re soon going to get;
Mm-m