"If something happens like a
war--or a--a bridge burning down--or something--or other--that makes
business conditions--what'd you call it--it makes them all kind
of upside down, doesn't it? Sometimes--kind of--things are hard to
get. Everybody knows that."
"We can see it," a scout said.
By this time the scoutmaster was laughing heartily but with the
greatest good humor. Pee-Wee continued bravely, to the great
amusement of the party.
"Gee whiz, nobody ever came along this road. You admit that scouts
are hungry, don't you?"
"We proclaim it," said the scoutmaster.
"I ate a lot of the stuff and my aunt wouldn't cook any more
stuff for us because nobody ever came and it got stale and I ate
too much of it, that's what she said. So now, anyway, we're going
to start in again because the business world--and we're--we're going
to speed up production."
"All right, speed up the auto and good luck to you," the scout
with the bronze cross said. He seemed to be a patrol leader.
There was a little fraternal chat before this boisterous troop
moved on and all seemed interested in Pee-Wee and his enterprise.
They were on their way to camp somewhere down the line. "You'll
succeed all right," they called back to him, "only be sure to have
plenty of stuff on hand when we come back in a couple of weeks or
we'll kill you.
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