“Sure, he’s a canary——”
“Will you keep still with that?” the kid yelled.
“I wish the weekly animated news of all the world could see us now,” I said. “‘Boy Scouts marooned on an ad,’ that’s what they’d put. ‘Starving on a desert advertising sign.’”
The farmer down there on the rock didn’t laugh at all, he just sat there smoking.
“This is a siege,” the kid said.
“We’re blockaded,” another one shouted.
“I bet Minerva Skybrow could get us out of this,” I said. “Anybody who likes algebra——Hey, Scout Harris, I thought you said that a scout is resourceful. Can’t you pass out a little resourcefulness? We’ll turn into mummies up here.”
“We’ll sacrifice our lives for Brown’s hats,” Warde said.
So then we started to sing again, each scout singing something different, but pretty soon we all got in line with this; it’s a kind of a sequel to “Over There”: