Pretty soon I started hopping on one foot and it’s pretty hard to do that on a stone wall.
“Have a heart!” one of them shouted at me. A lot I cared.
There was a man with a big straw hat on in the field and he came over toward us. I guess he thought we’d fall down in his cabbages. I kept hopping on one foot and kind of bending over toward the field and once I leaned away over and made believe to lose my balance and so the other fellows had to do the same. We were all kind of staggering on the stone wall.
The man said, “Look out whar yer fall if yer know what’s well fer yer. Did yer see that thar sign yonder?”
“If I turn to look at it I’ll fall,” I said. All the while we were trying to stand still, each of us on one foot. Gee, I bet we looked crazy.
The man said, “I’m givin’ yer warning, yer set a foot in this field uv cabbage and I’ll hev the law onter yer.”
“I can’t stand on one leg any longer!” Pee-wee shouted.
I kept hopping on one leg and I said, “Follow your leader whatever he does.”
“If we fall in the field we’ll miss the train,” the kid shouted.
“Our solemn honor is more important than a train,” I told him.