“Because I shall not allow it.”
“And there’s another reason,” announced Stacy. “You can’t because you can’t. But if you did succeed in getting to the top think what sport you could have!”
“How so?” asked Butler.
“You could do a toboggan slide two miles long. I reckon it would land you somewhere over in Asia. Wouldn’t that be funny?”
“I don’t know about that,” reflected Butler.
“You wouldn’t know about it if you were to take the slide, either. But how it would surprise some of those Asiatics to see a Pony Rider Boy suddenly landing in their midst, coming from the nowhere,” chuckled Stacy.
“I rather think it would surprise almost anyone to have a Pony Rider Boy land in his midst,” answered Tad with a smiling nod.
“Is that some kind of joke?” demanded the fat boy.
“No, that’s an axiom,” spoke up Rector.
“An axiom?” reflected Chunky. “Oh, I know what that is. It is something that something else revolves around, isn’t it? That’s the 67sort of thing the world is supposed to revolve about. I know, for I read it in my geography.”