“Maybe you’ll say I didn’t discover him,” Pee-wee demanded.
“You’re the greatest discoverer next to Columbus, Ohio,” Roy said.
“Well anyway, whoever discovered him, I like him,” Warde said.
“Same here,” said Roy quite ready for any topic of conversation. “I can’t make him out but I like him.”
“He’s just down and out, sort of,” Warde said. “Maybe he’s been sick. That’s the way it seems to me. But he likes us and I like him. It’s fun to see him smile.”
“I wonder where he came from?” Roy asked, as they made their way across fields. “He never says anything about where he belongs or anything.”
“Maybe he doesn’t know,” Warde said.
“We shouldn’t worry about his history,” said Roy. “He’s all right and that’s enough. And he’s going up to Temple Camp with us if I can get him to.”
“I–” began Pee-wee.
“Sure, you discovered Temple Camp,” said Roy. “You discovered the North Pole and the South Pole and the clothes pole and the Atlantic Ocean and Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company and you’ve got them all down in your little book.”