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'Stay here with Edwin Booth till I get back. "I hustles down the line 'n' finds Peewee Simpson washin' out bandages that's what he'd come to. "'You still got that sorrel hound? I says to him. "'Nope, says Peewee. 'He's got me. I'm takin' in washin' to support him. "'Brace yourself fur a shock, I says. 'I'll give you real money fur him.
"'About three miles 'n' all hills, says Butsy. "'How do you get out? says Peewee. "'We could take the street-car if it wasn't fur the hosses, says Butsy. 'As it is we'll have to hoof it through the mud. "'Look-a here, I says to Butsy, 'there's no sense in three of us gettin' wet. You know the way 'n' we don't. You take the hosses 'n' we'll come out on the street-car.
"'It's the truth! says Peewee, 'n' we rolls in the straw a-holdin' to each other till I feel like I'd been stepped on by a draft hoss. "Butsy gets up. "'Just one more snicker out of either of you, he says, ''n' I lead my hoss to the depot! "I see he means it 'n' I gets my head down in the straw 'n' holds my breath. Butsy stands there a-lookin' at us.
"I know I'm hungry anyway," Peewee shouted as he threw a suitcase from his vantage point on the platform, with such precision of aim that it landed plunk on Connie Bennett's head, to the infinite amusement of the passengers. "Did it hurt you?" Peewee called. "He isn't injured just slightly killed," Roy shouted; "hurry up, let's go up in the wagon and get there in time for a light lunch."
He ain't over a half a mile away right now. "'I hope they ain't no children on the road, says Peewee. "I figgers this Harry Evans is sure ridin' a threshin'-machine with its insides loose, but when he comes through the gates I gets a shock. Say, his machine ain't much bigger'n a good-sized sardine can! It's painted red 'n' smoke's comin' out of the front of it.
Flo Ziegfeld has nothing on George, the head barber, when it comes to an eye for color and a sense for curve. But they are busy at the moment. The hair-tonic Dons and the mud-pack Romeos are giving the girls a heavy play. Peewee alone is at leisure. Therefore let us gallop quickly to the memoirs. "H'm," says Peewee, "I'll tell you about men. Of course what I say doesn't include all men.
"'I'll have the law on ye sure! a old Jasper is sayin'. He's got on a long-tailed coat 'n' a white string tie. "'Edge right in! whispers Peewee to me. 'It ain't goin' to cost you a cent! "'You ain't got no right to lock them stalls, Jim Burns! says the old Jasper. 'They belong to the Knox County Agricultural Society!
"The young man hesitated for a few moments, saw that it was useless to remain longer at that time, and went. "The next day Mr. Burt sent for Dr. Peewee. "The moment I knew what he intended to do I ran to your grandfather and told him that Colonel Wayne was not a fit husband for his daughter. But when I told him that the Colonel had deserted me, Mr. Burt laughed scornfully. "'You, Mrs. Simcoe?
"When I get back the old gazink is still workin' on Peewee, but all of a sudden he stops 'n' listens. "'Pit-too-ee there's your car, boys! he says, 'n' then I begins to hear a groanin' sound. "Man! they ain't no way to tell you about that street-car! She falls to pieces only they wraps all the upper parts together with wire till she looks like a birdcage.
"'Cut it! Cut it! says Butsy, spreadin' out his hoss paper. 'Act like you has some sense, 'n' I puts you hep to a hot scheme I gets out of this paper us three can pull it off to a finish! "'I don't want in on no scheme with that lantern snatcher! says Peewee then to me. "'If you don't age some, I says to Peewee, 'nursie'll come around here, 'n' put a nice fresh panty-waist on you!
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