“Because there isn’t any Santa Claus,” I told him. “No sooner said than stung. Open your mouth and I’ll shoot this grasshopper in it.”
By that time, Dub and Sandy were lying on their backs kicking their legs and laughing so hard they couldn’t speak.
After a while, Dub said, “Here’s an answer, and you give me the question to it.”
“Absotively, posolutely,” I told him.
He said, “The answer is yes.”
“The question is, is it?” I told him. “Any one else wants to ask an answer?”
“I’ll ask one,” Sandy said. “Yes, we have no marbles.”
“The question to that is, Why don’t we make some marble cake?” I said. “The way you do it is to subtract the adverb from the combined total with one to carry. Here comes a man.”
“You better stop your nonsense or he’ll think you’re crazy,” Pee-wee said. “I bet he’s going to chase us away from here.”
“I wonder where he blew in from,” Sandy said.