“More so,” said Ray. “The compass is not scientific.”
“And they get all stuck up with glue, too,” Pee-wee said.
“Absolutely,” said Fuller. “If Columbus had said eenie, meenie, minee, mo, he might have discovered Columbus, Ohio, before he got through.”
So they chose their spokesman by those reliable words and the responsibility fell to Fuller Bullson.
In the ticket office of the Westover station sat a very sober looking young man, listening to the telegraph instrument.
“Maybe he’s getting a wire that his grandmother’s dead,” said Ray.
“He looks as if he had just been drafted,” said Fuller.
“Shh, I think he’s posing as a model for a tombstone,” said Ray.
“He looks like an accident on its way to happen,” said Fuller.
“Maybe he has to go to the dentist’s,” said Ray; “he looks like the middle of the night.”