Part 6 (2/2)
”I don't care, I'll do it!” Pee-wee yelled ”You pile one n,” Westy said
”That's the first tiet the best of Pee-wee,”
Artie Van Arlen observed
The di valiantly protected the eggs in one extended hand gradually divested himself of the ic move took a tactical position behind these defenses with the pasteboard box of eggs upraised in heroic and threatening defiance The war had come to an end suddenly, like the World War
”Unconditional surrender,” Roy shouted
”Do I get three helpings of stew for supper?” de an indes won the war,” Roy conceded
As for Blythe, he was sitting on a grocery box in No Man's Land, laughing so hard that his sides ached Their banter seehed and seemed so simple and childlike and so much one of them, that they found him so likable
CHAPTER IX
AROUND THE FIRE
After this decisive conflict the period of reconstruction or rather the period of derand feast cooked out-of-doors in the brass kettle which was the pride of Roy's life That brass kettle stood upon a scout fireplace of stones, and frorance to those who sat about, feeding the companionable fire The scouts were quitebreeze to the lonely visitant at the old deserted camp, and their fun and brisk efficiency and readiness seeive him a new life and afford him amusement which was expressed in that silent, likeable, yet haunting shed aloud and he talked but little, and then with a kind of diffidence that see to leave that kettle to my ancestors when I die,” Roy said
”It's been all over and I've cooked everything in it except Cook's tours; it's travelled more than they have, anyway It's been to Temple Camp and we fished it up frouess as many as ten thousand wheat cakes have coht hundred is all Pee-wee can say for sure about,”
Westy said
”Are you used to cahtbecause you came here”
”It was just that I was out of a job,” Blythe said frankly ”Anything's better than nothing I happened to wander in here andto tear the caot me this job I don't suppose you'd call it a job, it's an assigns and they sent me a paper with the numbers on I've only been here a couple of days
Yesterday was the only tiive it up I didn't have any supplies and I didn't knoho to get to help lad that friend of yours caht”
”He's our scoutot to kno toand we'll show that savage concern all right We'll show thee,” Roy said
”Pee-wee can e them,” Westy observed
”Oh sure, all you have to do is to kno to e for our young hero”
”He can even taer-lilies and everything He eats the, how about the stew?” Artie Van Arlen asked
”It has to stew for an hour,” Roy said ”Soet out the tin plates; be prepared, that's our motto All the comforts of home Where's _your_ home?” he asked Blythe in a sudden impulse
”Oh I'uess I must have left home before I had my eyes open”