I said, “Sure, maybe if we’re patient we’ll have some mishaps. While there’s life there’s hope.”
“Trust to Hervey,” Bert said.
Pee-wee said, “I could do without the mishaps if I had some more food.”
“When you’re hungry you’re supposed to eat a little at a time,” I told him. “Don’t you know when a man is starving they give him one spoonful of milk to begin with? You have to get used to eating.”
“I’m used to it already,” our young hero shouted.
Warde said, “You’d better look out; did you ever hear about the fish——”
“There isn’t any more fish,” I said.
“He was in a globe,” Warde said, “and the man that owned him took a spoonful of water out of the globe each day until that fish gradually learned to live on dry land.”
“What are you talking about?” Pee-wee screamed.
“I knew that fish personally,” Warde said; “and one day the man took him out for a walk and the fish fell into a pond and was drowned.”