“That shows how much you know about law,” Pee-wee shouted down. “My uncle’s got a friend who’s a lawyer. If this sign has a right here we have a right here because we’re part of the sign. You can, ask Mr. Bull who works for Brown’s Hats if we’re not. Do you see what it says on this sign? Always on top? That means us. It means us just as much as the hats. We belong here, so there.”
The man said, “Haow did you get here without trespassin’?”
I said, “That isn’t the question. We’re here because we’re here. The question is has the sign got a right to be here?”
“Sure,” Pee-wee yelled down, “that’s logic.” He looked awful funny sitting up there and shouting down at the man. “Suppose a thing has a right to be in a place but the people that own that thing don’t own the place. If you’re on the thing——”
“You ain’t got no right there,” the man shouted up.
“Lift the ladder up,” Westy said.
“Sure, that’s strategy,” Pee-wee said.
So we hauled the ladder up out of the man’s reach.