. Roy Blakeley's camp on wheels . I laughed so hard I nearly fell off the the cause of tears? Connie said rightback at him. 130 ROY BLAKELEYS What? Pee-wee asked him. Crying, Connie said. Why is the sky blue? Why is it? the kid shouted. It isnt, Connie said; look out of the win-dow, its black. That isnt a riddle, Pee-wee shouted. Its a fact, Connie said; whats the answerto a question? You make me tired, the kid screamed; whatkind of a question? Any kind, Connie said; how fast is a mile? A mile isnt fast, you crazy Indian!1 Pee-weescreamed at him. That shows All right, how slow is it
. Roy Blakeley's camp on wheels . I laughed so hard I nearly fell off the the cause of tears? Connie said rightback at him. 130 ROY BLAKELEYS What? Pee-wee asked him. Crying, Connie said. Why is the sky blue? Why is it? the kid shouted. It isnt, Connie said; look out of the win-dow, its black. That isnt a riddle, Pee-wee shouted. Its a fact, Connie said; whats the answerto a question? You make me tired, the kid screamed; whatkind of a question? Any kind, Connie said; how fast is a mile? A mile isnt fast, you crazy Indian!1 Pee-weescreamed at him. That shows All right, how slow is it then? Connie askedhim. Suppose I have my picture taken. Well, what? the kid blurted out. Nothing, Connie said. You said, suppose you had your picture taken,Pee-wee screamed. All right, suppose I did; what of it? Connielaughed. Hes got a right to have his picture taken,hasnt he? I said. You can take mine if youllbring it back. Youre all crazy, Pee-wee shouted; youdont know a riddle when you see one. Do you *•». CAMP ON WHEELS 131 call those riddles? A riddle is something whereyou ask a question and the answer, kind of, meanssomething else. Precisely, Westy said; the same as some-where is a place you get to, by going to it. Denyit if you can. Well, theres one place Im going to, Conniesaid; uand thats asleep. If you dont mind, Ill go with you, Wig said I dont know how it is, but just before we turnin, we always have a lot of nonsense like that. Ibet you think were crazy. Pretty soon Westyand I were the only ones awake. Hes so care-ful he never goes anywhere without thinking itover beforehand—not even to sleep. If he weregoing to go crazy, hed have to think it all overbeforehand and count ten first. Talk about watch-ing your step; he has his chained. And ihe alwaysremembers where he puts things, too. He nevereven loses his temper. I dont lose mine much,but gee whiz, I mislay it sometimes. CHAPTER XXIV UP IN THE AIR THIS is a pretty wild country/1 Westy said;its all m
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