Part 4 (1/2)
”I won't let anybody boss me,” Peewee yelled
Roy vaulted upon the table, while the others crowded about, To silently This was just what he liked
”Owing to the absence of our beloved scoutmaster,” Roy shouted, ”and the sudden rise in the world of Tomasso Slade, alias Lucky Luke, alias Sherlock nobody Holness to run this show, because he saw General Pershi+ng and is too chesty, I no, Blakeley and Harris, with a platform”
”We don't need any platforot the table?”
”It's better to stand on the table than to stand on ceremonies,” Dorry Benton vociferated
”Sure, or to stand on our dignity like Tomasso Slade,” Westy Martin shouted
”Put away your ha to hike to- to the city?”
”Answered in the affir to do?” Peewee yelled
”We are!” shouted Roy
”Do we go to the city?” Doc asked seriously
”Posilutely,” said Roy; ”that's why I'; so we can take up a collection”
”All right, go ahead and be boss as long as you're up there,” Connie Bennett said, ”only don't stand on the cake”
”Don't slip on the icing,” Westy shouted
”I'll slip on your neck if you don't shut up,” Roy called ”If I'm boss, I'd like to have soot any,” Peewee piped up
”Thou never spak'st a truer word,” Westy observed
”I would like to have a large chunk of silence,” said Roy; ”enough to last for at least thirty seconds”
”You'd better ask General Slade,” said Doc; ”he's the only one that carries that article around with hiand asked pleasantly
To so, but he didn't
There was one other scout, too, who made a specialty of silence in that hilarious Bedlaaunt, thin, little felloith streaky hair and a pale face, who sat huddled up, apparently enjoying the banter, laughing with a bashful, silent laugh He hed, and the others seemed content to let hihtness, and when he laughed his white teeth and rather drawn hastly appearance He seemed as much of an odd number as Tom himself, but not in the same way, for Tonome of a scout seemed all nerves and repressed excitement
”Let's have a chunk of silence, Alf,” Roy called to hi to be a collection, let's get it over with,” Westy put in