It would be a zebra and a giraffe and a jungle tiger next." "No, it wouldn't," he declared.

"I wouldn't know how to take care of them, but I do know how to feed the things that live around here." "What do you want them for ?" "Well, you know what Huldah said about summer campers.

There's always a lot of boys along, and if I had a sort of menagerie they'd want to come over and play circus, and then they'd let me in on their ball-games and things.

It's awful lonesome with school out and Billy Downs gone back East.

There's so few fellows here my age, and Jack won't let me play much with the little Mexicans.