[Pee-wee Harris by Percy Keese Fitzhugh]@TWC D-Link bookPee-wee Harris CHAPTER V 5/8
There are shacks all the way.
All the autoists stop and buy things to eat.
You can get tires and everything." "Oh, I wouldn't want to eat tires," said Pepsy. "You think you're smart, don't you ?" Pee-wee said. "What are your soldier clothes for ?" the girl wanted to know. "They're not soldier clothes," Pee-wee said; "I'm a scout." "I bet you don't know as much as Miss Bellson does." "I bet I don't either," Pee-wee said, "so I win." "She's the school teacher here and she knows everything." "Did she know I was coming ?" "No she didn't and--" "Then she doesn't know everything," Pee-wee said. "Smarty, smarty!" the girl retorted, "I came out of an orphan home and that's more than you can say.". "You only get one helping of dessert there," said Pee-wee.
"I'd rather be a scout than an orphan.
I know a feller who was an orphan and he was sorry for it afterwards." "Are you going to stay all summer ?" "Till school opens," Pee-wee said. "Do you want me to show you where there's a woodchuck hole ?" At this point Pee-wee was summoned again to the kitchen where he ate a sumptuous repast, after which Pepsy and Wiggle took him about and showed him the farm. Pee-wee and Pepsy fenced a good deal but seemed to progress in this cautious and defensive way toward a friendly understanding.
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