CHAPTER XXXII 



Home Again 



Wild yells of delight greeted the ship. The boys 

 threw their hats into the air, Snowball stood on his 

 head, and the monkey ran up the flagpole and tore 

 the flag into a thousand pieces. 



xAs the boat from the ship approached the shore, 

 the bovs went out in their canoe to meet it and led 

 the way back to the landing. Greetings and intro- 

 ductions and scraps of news and anxious inquiries 

 about friends were mingled in a perfect babel of 

 voices. 



The newcomers were wonderfully surprised at the 

 house and its beautiful surroundings, and at the 

 story of their life on the island for the three years 

 past. Edna prepared a typical dinner of tropical 

 foods, which was highly appreciated, and then they 

 had some music under the torch light, with singing, 

 in which everybody joined. 



Next morning, the visitors were shown the mu- 

 seum, the animals, the birds, and the flower gardens, 

 and they were simply astonished at what the chil- 

 dren had accomplished. They decided to spend a 



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