She said, “We’ll take everything there is to eat in the pantry. My brave army must be fed.”
Pee-wee said, “I’m—I’m not so hungry.” Gee whiz, it was the first time I ever heard him admit that.
She said, “If there is any bird seed in this house you shall have it. Sit down.”
Pee-wee sat down on the edge of a chair, looking all around, good and scared. Every time a door creaked he gave a start. He said, “It’s—it’s in—it says in the scout handbook that we have no right to trespass——”
She waved the belt-axe and she said, “The scout handbook! Ho, ho! A mere scrap of paper.” She was awful funny.
Pee-wee said, “We didn’t mean to stay here. All we wanted was to go through——”
“Do you eat pie?” she said.
He said, “Yes, but—maybe we’d better start.”
We were all sitting around the dining room. I guess all of us felt kind of shaky. I thought every minute that Pee-wee was going to get up and run.