“I think so, too,” replied Tom.
“What?” asked Jim.
“Take more ‘rations’ with us,” replied Tom.
“Wake up, boy,” cried Jo, giving him a shove and toppling him over on deck. “You think so much about rations that you are getting irrational.”
“That gives me an idea,” began Juarez, when Jo and Tom had been separated and quiet restored.
“An idea of war?” asked Berwick.
“No,” laughed Juarez. “But would it not be a good thing to go on shore and camp there until we had made a complete exploration of the place?”
“Just the thing!” cried Jo and Tom.
“I am afraid it is hardly wise,” demurred the professor.