hand. It was nice in the woods. I found a red lizard,
too; the kind that come out after it rains. I guess he made a mistake, hey?
There are lots of them up that way.

I said, "You just keep that four-leaf clover and it'll bring you luck. If
you can stand a pine cone on your thumb and hold it that way till you count
ten, then you can make a wish and it'll come true."

So Willie Wide-awake balanced a pine cone like that and counted ten and
then he said, "I wish we'd get a hundred dollars and I wish Mr. Jennis
would hurry up and come back."

And then I batted the pine cone away with a birch stick, So as to make the
wish come true. You've got to be sure the stick is made of birch.

CHAPTER XXIX

JIB JAB AND HARRY

Anyway, the day passed soon enough, even if we didn't have much to do, and
after supper, Harry said very innocent sort of, "Roy, suppose you and Dorry
hike into Kingston with me and carry home some stuff. The rest of you start
a fire."

Little Willie Wide-awake piped up, "I'll go with you." But Harry just
ruffled up his hair, the same as he was always doing with me and said, "You
just sit here and watch the fire. See what you can find in the fire. The
other night we were seeing all sorts of things in the fire-pictures and
things. You can find all kinds of pictures in fires, can't you, Brent?"

Brent Gaylong said, "That's the idea."

So then Harry gave the little fellow a kind of a push so he went sprawling
right down all over the other fellows. Gee, I bet those kids liked him. I
don't know, but he had a way about him that everybody liked. After we
started I told him he ought to be a scoutmaster, and he said he would only
he had a date in Labrador. He said he had a date to go hunting seals.
Another time he told us he had a date to kill a man in Australia. He had a
lot of dates.

On the way to Kingston he said to us, "Did you give that newspaper article
back to Gaylong?"

And I told him, "Yes."

"All right," he said; "we don't want that in our possession. We have
nothing to do with this business; see?"

Dorry said, "Sure, we understand."

Then Harry said, "Now I don't want you kids to be disappointed if this wild
man of Borneo turns out not to be wandering Horace at all; see?"

"I can't be mistaken," I told him.

He said, "Well, Columbus was mistaken when he thought he'd reached India,
and he was smarter than you."

"Gee whiz," I said, "I don't deny he was smarter than I am. But anyway, I
k