"I was hoping we might stick in some pleasant spot," said Townsend, "where the fishing is good. I forgot how a floating island might act in a tidal river. I wish this island would make up its mind to something. Just when I want to explore the western coast I find it's the eastern coast. I don't know where I'm at----" "You don't have to know where you're at to have fun," said Pee-wee. "I know it," said Townsend; "but when I hike fifteen or twenty feet to the north coast of the island and then the island swings around and I find I'm on the south coast, I've got to hike all the way across the island again to get to the north coast and when I get there I find I'm on the west coast. Then I cross to the east coast and in about a minute I find I'm on the southern shore. "No matter where I go I'm somewhere else; it's discouraging. I've walked forty-eleven miles since supper trying to keep on the western coast and here I am on the north--wait a minute--the eastern coast. If this island won't stay still I can't explore it." "I tell you what we can do," said Pee-wee; "we can penetrate the interior, then we'll always be in the same place." So they penetrated the interior and sprawled on the ground and chatted. "When we find another member," said Pee-wee, "we'll have a full patrol and then we'll have to start a scout record and write down a description of the island and everything we see, because scouts have to do that because they have to be observant and they have to be accurate when they describe things." "Would you say that this little tree is near the west coast of the island?" Townsend asked. "I've followed it around for the last half hour and I don't know where it is except it's here." "Here isn't a place," said Roly Poly. "Sure it is," shouted Pee-wee; "here is just as much a place as there." "More," said Townsend. "There are three places--here, there, and everywhere; I've often heard them spoken of." "That's just where this island is," said Brownie. "Absolutely," said Townsend, "only it won't stay there. Is there anything more we can eat? Anything more that you don't have to _make_? My long tramp in search of the west coast has made me hungry again." "I can make flapjacks," said Pee-wee; "I've got eight pounds of Indian meal." "How far would I have to hike to digest them?" Townsend asked. "You'd need a bigger island than this," said Brownie. "You couldn't digest a flapjack on anything smaller than South America." "Give me a piece of chocolate," said Townsend, "and a couple of prunes." "It looks nice up the river in the moonlight, doesn't it?" Brownie asked. "You mean down the river," said Townsend. "I'm facing----" "Don't try to find out where you're facing," said Townsend. "Here, eat a prune." "I'm going to turn in pretty soon," said Nuts. "That's a new place to turn," said Townsend. "We've turned everywhere but _in_. In the morning we'll turn out; then we will have turned everywhere."