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Roy Blakeley’s Adventures in Camp

CHAPTER X
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But I guess Pee-wee didn't have any jawbreakers to spare.

His cheeks were sticking out and there was licorice all over his lips, and he said--this is the way it sounded: "I--ooo--go--to--goo--to--are--" something like that, honest.
"Go in and wash your face," Doc said; "you look like a minstrel actor in a rainstorm." "Yu--sht--p--m--nd--r--n--business." Pee-wee blurted out.

Crackey, I thought I'd die.
Pretty soon Doc Carson (he's a Raven) threw a jaw-breaker out into the water and Skinny got it before it went down.
"What do you know about that little water snake," El Sawyer said.

Then he shouted, "Bully for you, Skinny!" I said, "You'd better look out, you'll get yourself in trouble." "What do I care for the Elks ?" he said.
"That's all right," I said; "Connie's got Skinny copyrighted, all rights reserved." Then, all of a sudden, Wig Weigand shouted, "Look at that, will you?
Look!" We could just see Hunt Ward reach out of the skiff for Skinny, when all of a sudden he disappeared and came up about twenty feet from the skiff.

Everybody began laughing and I guess the Elks were mad, because they thought we were just sitting up there kidding them.
Right then I heard Mr.Ellsworth calling out from just in back of us, "Take him in the skiff and bring him aboard, Huntley." "Now--e--ng--t--gt--cld--down," Pee-wee said, munching away on a jaw breaker.
"You look as if you'd been gargling a bottle of ink," I told him.
"Don't talk, you can't do two things at once." Pretty soon Skinny came up the ladder to the cabin roof where we were all sitting.


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