e only the
disconnected parts of a merry-go-round.

Upon the white and silver wind organ which arose out of this ghastly
display sat a personage in cap and bells with face elaborately decorated
in every color of the rainbow. He was distributing printed announcements
to the gaping citizens of Everdoze. Not so much as a frankfurter or a
glass of lemonade did the people of this motley caravan buy.

It was late in the afternoon and Pee-wee and Pepsy were feeling the
tedium of waiting when suddenly the sound of merry laughter burst upon,
their ears and somebody said, "Oh, I think it's perfectly adorable to be
on the wrong road! I just adore being lost! And I never saw anything so
perfectly excruciating in my life!"

"It's an auto full of girls," said Pee-wee, adjusting his paper hat upon
his head; "they come from the city, I can tell; you leave them to me."

"I never saw anything so adorably funny in all my life," the partners
now heard. "I just have a headache from laughing."

"I know that kind," said Pee-wee; "they've got the giggles. You leave
them to me."

Pepsy was ready enough to defer to the master mind, the more so because
this approach of their first probable customers gave her a kind of
stage fright. She was seized with sudden terror and the dishpan full of
doughnuts shook in her hands as she placed it in full view by Pee-wee's
order.

The auto was evidently picking its way along the hubbly road in second
gear. "We'll find a place where we can turn around somewhere," said a
man's voice good humoredly.

"Not till we've gorged ourselves with food," the voice of a girl caroled
forth.

Pee-wee gave his white paper cap a final adjustment, stood the pan of
taffy enticingly in full view and waited as a pugilist waits, for the
adversary's next move.

"I am going to have a saucerful of ground glass, the latest breakfast
food," a female voice sang merrily. At which there was a chorus of
laughter.

"What did she say?" Pepsy asked.

"Girls are crazy," Pee-wee said.

Pepsy fumbled nervously with the Several glasses of lemonade which stood
temptingly ready on the counter and glanced fearfully but admiringly at
the genius of this magnificent enterprise.

It was the biggest moment in her poor little life and Pee-wee was a
conquering hero. She placed the fudge within his reach and waited in
terrible suspense to see him operate upon this giggling band of lost
pilgrims.

Nearer and nearer the car came and now it