he said, "Who's leader here?"

"I am," I told him.

He said, "Well, I want your name and address. We'll probably want you to
pose. Did you ever pose?"

Pee-wee said, "We were in the movies, in the imitated news."

"Sure, we used to pose for animal crackers," I said.

"Hey, Mr. Bull," Dorry called down; "if we're on this sign are we
trespassing?"

"No more than the paint is," Mr. Bull said, looking kind of sideways at
the farmer. I guess Mr. Bull saw how it was all right. "You boys are
protected by your contract with Mr. Grabberberry here. You're absolutely
safe, you're covered."

"By Brown's hats," Westy said.

Mr. Bull said, "Exactly. The sentence above refers to you. You've given
us an idea."

"We have lots of ideas," Pee-wee said.

I said, "I've got an idea we'd like to get away from here; we're hungry.
We've been in the hat business for over an hour. We've got a date with a
tree."

He said, "The world belongs to the boy scouts. Everybody knows them and
likes them. To say they're on top is just telling the truth. I think we
will hook you boys up with Brown's hats. We may ask you to pose. Brown's
hats are known the world over. Step right down, boys, and have no fear."

"Did you see me from the train?" Pee-wee asked him. "Did you see me fall
backwards? I bet I sold a lot of hats that way, hey?"

"Oceans of them," Mr. Bull said.

You can bet we weren't afraid with a bull to protect us. We went down
the ladder and the farmer didn't say a word. I guess he was thinking
about the money he got from Brown's hats all right. He said to Mr.
Bull, very nice and polite, "I kinder thought they wuz trespassin', you
know. 'N I was a-scared they'd get inter some trouble."

"Believe me," I said, "we can't get into trouble because we never got
out of it. Anyway, we like the hat business pretty well and I wouldn't
mind living on a sign except for getting hungry."

So then Mr. Slinger Bull tried to make us take five dollars for our
trouble, but we wouldn't take it because scouts don't accept money for
that kind of a service. Anyway, it wasn't a service at all, it was just
fun. I bet you never heard of anybody being marooned on a desert
signboard before.

CHAPTER THE LAST (THANK GOODNESS)

IT HASN'T GOT ANY NAME

Now that was the last adventure that we had that day. But we've had a
lot since then. We picked our way up through the woods on the side of
the ridge, using our compass, because we couldn't see far