"P-f-f-f-f-f-f," the locomotive went.
"Let me do it! Let me do it!" Pee-wee yelled.
I took the piece of glass out and leaned back against the tank. All of a sudden I saw something else sprawled all over the sheet. It was the right way around, too, for the engineer. I guess Pee-wee had been carrying it in his pocket. Anyway, there were spots on it where the soot had been wiped off. But it was easy to read it, and this is what it said:
MUCH OBLIGED, MISTER
Honest, can you beat that kid?
CHAPTER XXVIII
"SEEN IN THE MOVIES"
I guess the fellows down in the car must have seen the notice where it was printed kind of faint like, against a hill, because they couldn't have seen it on the screen. Anyway, they set up a howl and began shouting up out of the windows. They're a crazy bunch.