The best kind of leader is one that’s a nut;
Just keep your feet moving and keep your mouth shut,
And the shortest way home is to take a long cut.
And go north,
And go south;
And go east,
And go west;
The wrong way to get there is always the best.
CHAPTER XX
WE MAKE A PROMISE
After we were all rested, all of a sudden Hervey jumped up and started off, the rest of us after him singing Follow your leader wherever he goes. For a while he kept singing and we all kept singing. Sometimes he would go zigzag on the road and we all did the same. For a little way he held one of his legs in his hand and hopped till he fell on the ground and the rest of us fell all over him. He did all kinds of crazy things and whatever he said we said it after him. Pretty soon he turned off the turnpike into another road.