s the use of being scared at an old
rattly bridge. If you want to help us I'll tell you how you can do it. I
made a lot of signs and you can tack them all up on the trees along the
road for us if you want to. I'll show you just how to do it."

No one was at the shack when they reached it for Pepsy was about her
household duties, so she had no knowledge of this new recruit in their
enterprise. Pee-wee's conscience was clear in this matter, however, for
he had enlisted Licorice Stick as an employee, at the staggering
salary of twenty-five cents a week; there was no thought of his being
a partner. The willing assistance of his new friend would leave his own
time free for more important duties, and the advertising work once done,
Licorice Stick was to devote his time to catching fish for the "sto" and
other incidental duties.

Pee-wee now arranged his advertising masterpieces in order for posting.
The imposing type on the cards impressed Licorice Stick deeply. He could
not read two words but he seemed to sense the sensational announcements,
and the arrow which Pee-wee had made on each card to indicate the
direction of the shack was regarded by him as a sort of mystic symbol.

"This is the way you have to do," Pee-wee said; "now pay attention,
because it pays to advertise. There are two cards for each sign, see?"

"Dey's nice black print," Licorice Stick said with reverent
appreciation. "En dey's de magic sign, too."

"That tells them where the place is," Pee-wee said. "Now, you keep the
cards just the way I give them to you and always tack them up with the
arrow pointing this way see? Here's a hammer and here's some tacks. When
you come to a nice big tree or a wooden fence or an old barn, you're
supposed to tack them up; and be sure to do it the way I tell you. Now,
suppose you're going to tack up the first card--the one on the top of
the pile. You tack it up and right close under it you tack up the next
one, and it will say:"

FRANKFURTERS
SIZZLING HOT -->

"Mmm--mm!" exclaimed Licorice Stick, as if a hot frankfurter had
actually been produced by this ingenious card trick.

"Then you go along a little way," said Pee-wee, "till you come to
another good place, maybe a fence or something, and you tack up the next
one and right underneath it you tack up the next one; always take the
next one off the top of the pile, see."

ICE CREAM