"You see I was afraid about that poison-ivy and so I took a dip in the ocean.

And--" "But I called you and called!" "Yes, and I answered a couple of times.

And then I may have had my head under water." "A monstrous pity you didn't keep it there!" "When," continued Han, "I went to look for you I couldn't find you.

So I--so I came back here." "Yes, you thought maybe I'd swum across, eh! Or found a boat ?" "Sure! You did find a boat, didn't you ?" "You make me tired," growled Perry amidst the laughter of the others.
"And I hope that poison-ivy gets you good and hard!" "I don't believe it took," replied Han gently, "Maybe it wasn't poison-ivy, after all!" At that instant the outraged countenance of Ossie appeared in the companion way.

"What," he demanded irately of Perry, "do you mean by bringing back half a gallon of sour milk ?" Perry looked despairingly about at the unsympathetic and amused faces and wandered limply aft to the seclusion of the cockpit.
The next morning the Adventure Club chugged around to Edgartown, and then, after putting in gasoline and water, set out at a little after eleven, on a fifty-mile run to Pleasant Bay..