I said, “Hey, mister, is that a portable garage?” The man called back, “No, can’t you see it’s a load of hay?”
“No sooner said than stung,” I said.
“Maybe you don’t know we’ve been following that house,” I said.
The man said, “Well, if you follow it you’re not likely to get far.”
Hervey said, “Oh we don’t care, we’d just as soon be here as anywhere. It’s all the same to us.”
“We’re glad you didn’t get any farther with it,” Warde said. “We’ve been trying to go west by following the roof of that thing while it was going south.”
The man said, “I’m sorry if I led you astray. I seem to have reached the end of my journey.”
“You’re lucky,” I said. “We’ve been going around and around like the mainspring of a watch all day.”
The man said, kind of laughing, “You seem to be wound up.”
“Sure, we go for eight days,” Garry said. “What are you going to do with the garage?”