“Wouldn’t you like to have one?”
“I certainly would. I’d like to take it home with me.”
“If we ever get there.”
“Of course we’ll get there,” said John confidently. “Don’t worry about that for a second. It’s only a question of how soon it will be.”
“Don’t be so sure about that, String. We don’t know where we are and it certainly seems queer that we haven’t seen a single boat. That’s what worries me. If many boats went by this way, I wouldn’t worry, but if no boats come along, how are we to be picked up?”
“But some will come.”
“They haven’t yet.”
“It seems to me we ought to have a lookout,” said John. “A boat might go right by and we’d never see it at all.”
“I know it,” said George. “I think we ought to take turns up on top of the hill where the flag is.”
“I’m willing. We’ll talk about it to Grant and Fred, when we meet them.”