“Oh, we mean the picture,” the girls all chimed in at once.
“It’s a joke!”
“Oh, isn’t it terrible!”
“He didn’t really do it?”
“Let me see it.”
“Let me see it first.”
“Oh, it’s too shocking!”
“What does it all mean?”
By this time the Girls’ Humane Committee, as well as several other girl scouts and a fair sprinkling of the audience were crowding about Grove and Artie, looking at the large photo which they held. It was an exceptionally good photo taken with Roy’s fine camera; it was a masterpiece of his skill in photography. It showed Pee-wee in the very act of branding the horse. The girls gazed at it dumbfounded, then burst into a medley of denunciation.
“Oh, it’s perfectly terrible!”