Then the Buzz Buggy turned around and barked at them, and with an excited wag of its tail scooted for home and left them flat.
Late that evening Uncle Gilbert explained that there would have been no trouble at all if he had removed a defective spark plug.
But I think if Uncle Gilbert would go to Dr. Leiser and have his parsimony removed he'd have more fun as he breezes through life.
Peaches thinks just as I do, but she won't say it out loud—she's a fox, that Kid.
CHAPTER III
YOU SHOULD WORRY ABOUT DIETING
I was complaining to some of my friends in the Club the other evening because a germ General Villa had begun to attack the outposts of my digestive tract when a nut in the party began to slip me a line of talk about a vegetable diet.
I didn't fall for it until he proved to me that Kid Methuselah had prolonged an otherwise uneventful life and was enabled to make funny faces at the undertakers until he reached the age of 914 simply because he ate nothing but dandelion salad, mashed potatoes and stewed prunes.