In his enthusiasm he had been rather premature in his advertisement of auto accessories, and he now purposed to make good at least one of these announcements by commissioning Simeon Drowser to buy some ten-cent rolls of tire tape for him at Baxter City, whither Simeon went daily.
He started along the road to the post office where he hoped to catch Simeon before that worthy left for Baxter City.

But he did not reach the post office.

The first interruption to his progress was one of his own two-card signs staring him in the face from a roadside tree: CHEWING GUM FOR PUNCTURES He paused scowling before this novel announcement.
His gaze then wandered to a fence on which he read the astounding words: PANCAKES FOR HEADLIGHTS Alas, the ground glass which should have appeared in place of pancakes did duty beneath the single word EAT on another tree nearby.

Eat GROUND GLASS the hungry motorist was blithely advised.
Nor was this the worst.

As Pee-wee penetrated deeper into the woods the more terrible was the masquerade of his own enticing signs.