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They are of different colors, very hard, and capable of being handsomely polished. They are called "sea-beans" because great numbers of them drift up on the Florida and adjacent coasts. The next morning, I was awakened by Rectus coming into the room. "Hello!" said I; "where have you been? I didn't hear you get up."
It was pretty late in the afternoon when we reached home, and I made up my mind that the next time I went so far to fish, in a semi-tropical country, I'd go with a party who wore suits that would do for riding. Rectus and Corny and Mrs. Chipperton were up in the silk-cotton tree when I got home, and I went there and sat down. Mrs. Chipperton lent me her fan.
"Yes," said I, "but what troubles me is that queen's income. I don't see now where it's to come from, for old Goliah wont allow his people to be taxed for her, that's certain." Rectus agreed that things looked a little bluish, but he thought we might pay the income ourselves, until after the coronation, and then we could see what else could be done.
"You see," said I to Rectus, as we started down the ravine toward the river, with the crowd of adherents marching in front, "we've got to have these fellows at the coronation. So it wont do to scare 'em off now." We went down to a little public square in front of the town, where there was a splendid diving-place.
He did throw it away after a while, but he immediately began to cut another one. "Rectus," said I, "you'll make yourself sick. You'd better go to bed." "It's just the thing to stop me from being sick," said he, and at that minute the vessel gave her stern a great toss over sideways, which sent Rectus off his seat, head foremost into the wash-stand. I was glad to see it.
Priscilla looked at him, for a moment, as if she thought that he might want to buy something of that kind, but as she hadn't it to sell, she tried her flowers on him. "Please, boss, wont you buy dese roses fur " "No," said Rectus, "I wont." And we all turned and walked away. It was no use to blow her up. She wouldn't have minded it. But she lost three customers.
After a while, Rectus got interested in Corny's book, and the two read a good deal together. I did not interrupt them, for I felt quite sure that neither of them knew too much. The captain and all the officers on the steamer were good, sociable men, and made the passengers feel at home. I had got somewhat acquainted with them on our trip from Savannah to St.
At this, the girl's father told her that she must stop, and so she very dolefully let Menendez untie the line. "It's too bad!" she said, almost with tears in her eyes. "If they had only waited a few minutes longer!" And then she ran up to Rectus and me, and said: "When are you coming out here again? Do you think you will come to-morrow, or next day?"
The purser now took the two tickets for Rectus and myself, and saying: "We'll see what's to be done with the rest of you fellows," he walked away, too. Then we all looked at one another. We were a pretty pale lot, and I believe that Rectus and I, who were all right, felt almost as badly as the four other boys, who were all wrong. "We can't go to Savannah!" said Harry Alden.
"What is it?" I asked. Corny looked around to see that no one was standing or walking near the tree, and then she leaned toward me and said: "We are going to seat her on her throne!" "You?" I exclaimed, and began to laugh. "Yes, we are," said Rectus; "at least, we're going to try to." "You needn't laugh," said Corny. "You're to join."
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