She would not do her little optional chore of
milking a cow for fear he might perceive her superiority in this
little item of proficiency. Poor girl, she was a better scout than she
knew.
"If you think it up I'll do all the work, and then we'll be even,"
she said.
So Pee-Wee told her of the colossal scheme which his lively
imagination had conceived.
"It all started with a hot frankfurter," he said. "If I hadn't
bought a hot frankfurter I wouldn't have thought of it. So that
shows you how important a frankfurter is--kind of. Maybe a person
might get to be a millionaire just starting with a frankfurter,
you never can tell. ..."
CHAPTER VIII
MAKING PLANS
"I bought that frankfurter at a shack up on the highway and while I
was eating it I just happened to think that as long as there's lots of
fruit and things here and as long as you know how to make fudge, we'd
start a shack right here in this well house and sell lemonade and fruit
and fudge and cookies and things, and if we make lots of money I'd go
up to Baxter City and buy some auto accessories like spark plugs and
tire tape and things and we'd sell those, too. We'd put signs on the
trees along the road telling people to stop here and I know how to
make up signs so as to get people good and hungry.
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