“Anywhere,” I said. “Can’t you understand plain English?”
“Anywhere isn’t a place,” the kid shouted.
“That shows how much you know about geography,” I told him. “It’s the best place in the world. You’re so dumb you think that a plot in a story is where the grass grows. You don’t even know where a place is. Proceed with the singing,” I said to Hervey.
“And get it over with,” Warde said.
So then Hervey sang that crazy song again, lying on his back and kicking that crazy hat of his from one foot to the other. Here it is because, gee whiz, I’ll never forget it:
“When you go on a hike just you mind what I say,
The right way to go is the opposite way.
If you come to a cross-road don’t make a mistake,
Choose a road, and the other’s the one you should take.
Don’t bother with sign boards but follow this song,