"Most likely it was two minutes," I told the girl.
"And you came all the way out here alone? Oh, isn't that perfectly adorable! And you're going to give a show to earn money——"
"So we won't perish," Pee-wee said.
"Which?" Westy asked him.
"Perish," he said; "don't you know what perish means?"
"And will the pictures show you doing all those things?" one of the girls wanted to know.
"Sure," Pee-wee said; "maybe you'll get some good ideas from them, only you mustn't scream when you see one of the fellows fall out of a tree into the water, because that's nothing. That's one thing scouts don't do—scream."
But believe me, that was one thing scouts did do the very next day. I did, anyway; I screamed till I had a headache.