"Where's the train?" he asked.
"It went down the street to get a soda," I said.
That opened his eyes all right. "Can you get sodas around here?" he shouted.
We got hold of a chunk of wood and blocked one of the car wheels and then started out. We couldn't see very well in the dark, but we made out that the high fence went all the way around a great big flat field. There was a kind of a wide road around near the fence. The tracks ran right up under that building that we had seen ahead of us, into a kind of a tunnel. We saw it was an ice-house, and I guess ice was loaded onto cars there.
The two white things that we had seen were tents and there was a light in one of them, but we didn't go in. There were little buildings around, but they were closed up. There was a kind of a big platform with a railing around it. In another place there was a long shed full of cows. There were kind of things like mess boards all around, only some of them were too high for mess boards.
"I give it up," I said
"It's a cross between a barn-yard and a picnic ground," Connie said.
Westy said, "I think it's an aviation field."
"Sure," I told him; "how stupid of me. And the cows are aviators."
"What do you say we follow the fence around?" Westy said.