"Now, you keep the cards just the way I give them to you and always tack them up with the arrow pointing this way see?
Here's a hammer and here's some tacks.

When you come to a nice big tree or a wooden fence or an old barn, you're supposed to tack them up; and be sure to do it the way I tell you.

Now, suppose you're going to tack up the first card--the one on the top of the pile.

You tack it up and right close under it you tack up the next one, and it will say:" FRANKFURTERS SIZZLING HOT -- > "Mmm--mm!" exclaimed Licorice Stick, as if a hot frankfurter had actually been produced by this ingenious card trick.
"Then you go along a little way," said Pee-wee, "till you come to another good place, maybe a fence or something, and you tack up the next one and right underneath it you tack up the next one; always take the next one off the top of the pile, see." ICE CREAM <-- COLD AND COOLING Pee-wee repeated, holding the next two cards up.

This palate tickling sleight-of-hand seemed like a miracle to the smiling, astonished messenger.