The predicament was tragic.
Slowly, but surely and steadily, the remainder of the banana broke away
and fell--into the hand that held the letter.
Holding both letter and banana in the one perspiring palm, Pee-Wee
devoured first the one and then the other. Both were delicious, the
letter particularly. It had one advantage over the banana, for he
could only devour the banana once, whereas he devoured the contents
of the letter several times. He wished that bananas and doughnuts
were like letters.
CHAPTER III
AN INVITATION
The envelope was postmarked Everdoze which, with its one thousand two
hundred and fifty--seven inhabitants, was the cosmopolitan center of
Long Valley which ran ( if anything in that neighborhood could be said
to run) from Baxter City down below the vicinity of the bridge on the
highway. That is, Long Valley bordered the highway on its western side
for a distance of about ten miles. The valley was, roughly speaking,
a couple of miles wide, very deep in places, and thickly wooded. It
was altogether a very sequestered and romantic region. Through it,
paralleling the highway, was a road, consisting mostly of two wagon
ruts with a strip of grass and weeds between them.
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