Hervey said, “I know a better idea than that. What time is it?”
“Two o’clock,” I told him.
He said, “Good, I thought it was later. Do you like fish?”
“How many fish?” Pee-wee wanted to know.
“Oh just about,” Hervey said.
“If you’re asking me,” I told him, “I could even eat some fish-hooks I’m so hungry. I could eat a whole school of fish.”
“I could eat a whole university of them,” Garry said.
“Do you like them fried?” Hervey asked us.
“M-m-m-mm,” I said; “I can just hear them sizzling now. Lead me to them.”
He said, “We’ll have to wait for them. Let’s hang out on the bridge and pretty soon the fishing boat will come along; it always comes up from the Hudson about this time. I know the men on that boat, I’ve been out fishing with them. They’ll give us a couple of fish and we can cook them. You leave it to me, I’ll fix it.”