“You think you’re so smart,” said Pee-wee.
“Are you going to stand here like a couple of dunces, or are we going to show these boys what we know about this part of the mountains?”
“Pee-wee’s right,” said Warde. “Roy, do your bit.”
“Ahemm,” began I. “I have come, attended by my bodyguard, or faithful followers, to find out whether or not we may have the pleasure of your company at dinner to-day, we——”
“Oh shut up,” said Pee-wee. “Gee, you haven’t any brains at all. I’ll tell them. We want to take you boys around and show you the woods and the lake, an’ I know where there’s a peachy bird’s nest; I’ll show it to you,” said the good-natured little fellow.
“Pee-wee’s right,” said I.
“I’m sure we’d love to come, but some of the fellows are gone to the post office, so that leaves just a few of us left,” said one of the boys.
“But we’d, be delighted to come,” someone said.
It happened that this fellow came from Maine. That made him a special friend of Hervey and me, because he’s a Maniac.
“All right, let’s go,” said I. And we did go.