Subj: HAWAIIAN HONEYMOON Part Three
Date: 7/15/00 10:10:49 PM Central Daylight Time
From: N.E. Collins

Julia and the young pretty Kansas farm girl, Mary Anne, tended to the continued maintanence and general upkeep of the signal fire a.k.a. the cooking area on the long strech of white sandy beach. The Skipper and Gilligan had done the manual labor of the chore before they had set out with the Professor to explore and figure out exactly where they were. Mr. and Mrs. Thurston Howell the III along with Ginger Grant, the movie star were feigning illnesses of all sorts in the most shaded of areas. Barnabas was nearly down to his skivys and was leaping and hopping like a child in the surf! Mary Anne had convinced him that he would be so much more comfortable if he took off some of his burdensome clothing and got a bit of exercise! How easily this young girl had gotten her husband to disrobe and act the fool. Julia was snapped back to the arduous task at hand.

Mary Anne had asked her, yet, another question. Julia had half way heard her. It was one concerning how the other men would be able to determine their present location. Julia looked doubtfully down towards the ground and asked the girl, "Do you know anything about Geometry, my dear?"

"Me? Oh, goodness, no! Something like that may come in handy if you're a man, but a girl on the farm has no use for that kind of learning! Is it important to know?" She was so sweet that Julia hated her for no other reason as she continued. "In order for me to explain to you how the men will tell us where we are I would need to be able to speak using the simple language of Geometry. So, in this case, it is most important and most impossible." Julia threw another bunch of tied stalky fibers to the blaze. Barnabas joined the two of them. He was dripping wet and smiling like a cat from ear to ear.

"I feel young and alive!" He burst with an exuberance as he threw himself down betweent the two women. "I cannot remember the last time I went swimming like this! Why, it has been years!"

Julia piped in with, "More than you should mention, I am sure."

But neither Mary Anne nor Barnabas had caught the tone of sarcasm in the good doctor's voice. They had already moved on to the next inane conversation where Mary Anne was explaining to Mr. Collins how to plant crops by the light of the moon and the proper care and feeding of young farm animals. "And ask me about gestation periods! I know ALL of the animals gestations periods by heart! Why, I could even tell you when each of the grown females goes into heat! I may not know a whole lot, but I'm good at what I do know!"

Barnabas smiled as he said, "That is fascinating. Julia, don't you find this fascinating?"

Julia grit her teeth and after a cleansing breath she responded passionlessly, "Just fascinating."

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