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or Wednesday?" "We'll find a way," Pee-wee shouted. "Maybe they'll pick us up to-night, you can't tell. Anyway, I'm not going to be a quitter. Whenever I have to do anything I can always find a way. We can have a movie show, can't we? We can charge ten cents. We can have it to-night. You needn't sign _my_ name to any telegrams." "How can we have a movie show when there isn't any town here?" Westy wanted to know. "We'll find the town," Pee-wee shouted; "it must be somewhere." Connie said, "Oh, it's probably somewhere." "Sure it is," Pee-wee hollered; "and I've got that Temple Camp film in the machine. Remember about those scouts that were lost for a week in the Maine woods? We're not as bad off as they were, are we?" "Sure we're not," I said; "this is only the main line. Maybe it's only a branch line." "Do you mean to tell me that scouts can't get along when they're lost on a branch line?" he wanted to know. "Scouts can do anything, can't they? If I have to do something, I just do it. If I can't do it, I do it anyway. I can find a way, all right." "Bully for you! Hurrah for P. Harris!" we began shouting. "Do you think I'm going to starve?" he screamed. "Gee whiz, it never looked that way to me," I said. "Why should we go home while we're waiting?" he yelled at us. "Look out, you'll fall off the seat," Connie said. "We're here because we're here, you can't deny that!" the kid fairly screeched, all the while hanging onto one of those cage things they put bundles in, so he wouldn't fall off. "And I say we just stay here until they take us back in what-do-you-call-it--triumph--and put us where we belong. This is our station. No matter where it is, it's our station. We're good at tracking. If there's a town we'll trail it." "If it's hiding we'll find it," I shouted; "hip, hip and a couple of hurrahs for P. Harris, scout!" CHAPTER VI THE BIG B So we decided that we wouldn't send any telegrams or anything, and that we'd stay right there in Brewster's Centre Station till the railroad took us away and put us where we belonged. We said it was up to them. Westy's mother knew he had his "eats" outfit along, and I guess all our families knew about there being a stove and coal in the car. Anyway, you can bet that scouts' mothers don't worry about them when they're away. Gee whiz, my mother worries more about me when I'm home, because I always eat a lot of pie and cake when I'm home. And I'
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