I ordered a pineapple soda and yum, yum-m-m, didn’t that first spoonful of ice cream taste good.
CHAPTER XL
MMM—MM-M-M!
This is the last chapter and it’s very short. Maybe you’ll say that’s one good thing. But it’s a good one just the same. It’s a peach—I mean a pineapple. It’s the best chapter I ever wrote. It goes from the top of the glass to the bottom of the glass. And that’s the end of the story. So even if the story’s no good, it has a good ending. It had a good beginning, too. Harry Donnelle said there should be a special chapter about that soda.
Of course, there were seven other sodas, too. I don’t mean that I drank seven more. But mine is the best one to end with, because I always go right down to the bottom of the glass. The bottom is the only thing that stops me.
So that’s the way it is with this story. It has a happy ending. It bunks right into the bottom of the glass. The plot is all cleared up. So is the glass. There’s nothing left to tell—or to drink.
Harry Donnelle said if I didn’t look out I’d scrape the polish off the glass with my spoon.
I should worry, a scout is thorough.
So long.