say? Isn't it a peachy scheme? Will you help me?"

No dream of Pee-wee's could be impossible of fulfillment. With him, to
try was to succeed, according to Pepsy's simple and unbounded faith. The
plan must be all right, and wondrous in its possibilities. It was all
inspiration--born of a frankfurter. It was not for poor Pepsy to take
issue with this master mind.

Yet she did venture to say, "Not very many autos come down here, only a
few that go through to Berryville. Licorice Stick--"

"That's a dandy name," Pee-wee said.

"He goes by a dozen times a day, but he hasn't got any money, and Mr.
Flint goes by but he's a miser and Doctor Killem goes by in his buggy
and he says people eat too much--"

"He's crazy!" Pee-wee shouted.

"And that's everybody that goes by except a few when they have the town
fair in Berryville."

For a moment Pee-wee paused, balked but not beaten. "There's going to be
an Uncle Tom's Cabin show in Berryville," he said, "and the town fair,
that's two things. Let's start in and maybe later there'll be some
summer boarders in Berryville. We'll have waffles--I can make those. And
we'll have lemonade and fruit and all kinds of things and when you're
doing your chores I'll tend counter. We'll make a lot of money, you see
if we don't."

In her generous confidence, Pepsy was quite carried away by Pee-wee's
enthusiasm. She knew (who better than she?) that strangers never came
along that lonely by-road. But she believed that somehow they would come
when the scout waved his magic wand.

"And I'll make cookies," she said, "and all the things to eat and you
can print the signs--"

"And shout to the people going by," Pee-wee concluded enthusiastically.
"You have to yell ALL HOT! THEY'RE ALL HOT! Just like that."

Few could resist this, Pepsy least of all. "Let's go and ask Aunt
Jamsiah about it right now," she said.

"Let me do it, I know how to handle her," said Pee-wee.

And Pepsy deferred to the master mind, as usual.

CHAPTER IX

IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE

Permission to use the well house once secured, preparations for the vast
enterprise progressed rapidly. The very next day, while Pepsy was at
her chores, Pee-wee built a counter in the shack and sitting at this
he printed signs to be displayed along the woody approaches to this
mouth-watering dispensary.

Neither the gloomy predictions of his uncle nor the laughing skepticism
of his aunt dimmed his enterprising