[Pee-wee Harris by Percy Keese Fitzhugh]@TWC D-Link bookPee-wee Harris CHAPTER XIV 1/5
SUSPENSE Soon the gorgeous chariot containing the carnival paraphernalia came lumbering along en route for Berryville.
It was a vision of red and gold with wheels that looked like pinwheels in a fireworks display. The one discordant note about it was the rather startling projection of the heads and legs of animals here and there as if the wagon were returning from a hunt in South Africa.
But these were only the disconnected parts of a merry-go-round. Upon the white and silver wind organ which arose out of this ghastly display sat a personage in cap and bells with face elaborately decorated in every color of the rainbow.
He was distributing printed announcements to the gaping citizens of Everdoze.
Not so much as a frankfurter or a glass of lemonade did the people of this motley caravan buy. It was late in the afternoon and Pee-wee and Pepsy were feeling the tedium of waiting when suddenly the sound of merry laughter burst upon, their ears and somebody said, "Oh, I think it's perfectly adorable to be on the wrong road! I just adore being lost! And I never saw anything so perfectly excruciating in my life!" "It's an auto full of girls," said Pee-wee, adjusting his paper hat upon his head; "they come from the city, I can tell; you leave them to me." "I never saw anything so adorably funny in all my life," the partners now heard.
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