"
"You haven't had a bite to eat since breakfast and you're starving.
I can tell it," said Aunt Jamsiah. "You come right in the kitchen."
"I had a lot of frankfurters and things at the places along the
highway," Pee-Wee said. "I had waffles at one place. I bet they make
a lot of money along that road selling things. 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.
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