So now while our friends are waiting for us down on the road (I got this sentence from Pee-wee), I’ll tell you about sending that signal. Signals are my middle name—signals and geography. But the thing I like best about school is lunch hour. I’m crazy about boating, too.
XIV—PEE-WEE’S GOAT
That fellow, Harry Domicile, he’s crazy. He said, “If you like signals so much I don’t see why you send them. Why don’t you keep them?”
Will Dawson said, “It isn’t the signal we send, it’s a message; we send a message by a signal. See?”
Harry said, “But if it’s a good message why should you want to send it away? Why don’t you keep it? If it’s worth anything what’s the use of getting rid of it? A scout should not be wasteful.” Then he winked at Brent Gaylong.
Oh, boy, you should have seen Pee-wee. He shouted, “You’re crazy! Suppose I keep some-thing—suppose I keep——”
Rossie said, “Suppose you keep silence.”
“That shows how much you know about logic!” the kid yelled. “How can I keep silence——”
By that time we were all laughing, except Harry. He had the paper with the message written on it and he said, very sober like, “Well, if this message is any good at all I don’t see why we don’t keep it; it might come in useful.”
Pee-wee shouted, “A message is no good at all—even the most important message in the world is no good to the fellow that makes it——”