But--" "Is that so ?" inquired Joe with deep sarcasm.

"If I was half the 'fusser' you are--" "What I want," interrupted Perry, warming to his theme, "is adventure! I'd like to hunt big game, or discover the North Pole--" "You're a year or two late," murmured Joe.
"-- or dig for hidden treasure!" "You should--um--change your course of reading," advised Joe.

"Too much Roosevelt and Peary and Stevenson is your trouble.

Read the classics for awhile--or the Patty Books." "That's all right, but you chaps are just the same, only you won't own up to it." "One of us will," said Steve; "and does." "Make it two," yawned Joe.

"Beneath this--um--this polished exterior there beats a heart--I mean there flows the red blood of--" "Look here, fellows, why not ?" asked Steve.
"Why not what ?" asked Perry.
"Why not have adventures?
They say that all you have to do is look for them." "Don't you believe it! I've looked for them for years and I've never seen one yet." Perry swung his feet to the floor and sat up.
"Well, not at Delaware Water Gap, naturally.