The man said, “Well, ’tain’t right, by no manner o’ means. You’re trespassin’, that’s what you’re doing.”
Dorry said, “We’re sorry.”
The man said, “Well, so’m I, because I’m goin’ to make an example of you, that’s what I’m goin’ to do. I’m goin’ to learn you a lesson.”
I said, “No lessons, this is vacation.”
He said, “Haow?”
Westy said, “We’re sorry, we can’t do any more than say that. We thought it was all right. I don’t see what harm we do.”
“Well, you’ll find out,” the man said, good and cross.
All of a sudden Pee-wee shouted down at him, “Anyway, we’re not on your land, we’re on this sign. Has the sign got a right here?”
The man said, “Well, you youngsters, the people that pay me to let this sign stand here don’t pay me to let you climb all over it. Now you come down off there, every one of you, and we’ll see what’s what. We’ll see what the jedge has to say.”
“Don’t go down,” Dorry whispered.