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`` We ca n't take any more , '' Pee-wee shouted . `` You -- you get the ride for nothing -- it 's thrown in -- because I said free transportation and a scout has to keep his word . Even if we float miles and miles we ca n't take another cent -- '' `` We may be rovers but we 're not profiteers , '' moaned Townsend . `` If -- if we do n't drift to shore by supper time , '' said Pee-wee , `` you get your dinner too just like when an ocean steamer is delayed in a fog ; they give you your dinner , so do n't you worry because you 're with scouts and when it gets to be six o'clock I 'll make a hunter 's stew . '' At this there was a sudden noise as of horror and anguish and before our voyagers realized what was happening , Townsend Ripley had rolled off the island into the water . `` It 's all right , '' Townsend sputtered as he crawled ashore . `` I was just thinking of something sad ; I feel better now .