Pee-wee just kept trudging along and he said, “Maybe it seems long because we’re kind of played out.”
“Oh, we don’t care as long as you get us home,” Garry said.
“We trust you implicitly,” Warde told him.
“You’re our guiding light,” Garry said.
Pee-wee just trudged on.
Pretty soon he said, “As long as you’re all so tired, maybe I can find—I think I know a short cut.”
“Take us the way the raven flies,” I said; “the shorter the quicker.”
“I can see a road over there through the trees,” he said. “That goes into the turnpike. It’ll be easier walking on the road.”
“As long as you know you’re going the right way,” I said.
“Sure I’m going the right way,” he said; “what’s the use of getting scared. We’ll be home in twenty minutes.”