good detective, and Will Dawson and Brick Warner and Slick Warner and
that's all.

Now I'll tell you about the raving Ravens. Of course, I can't tell you
all that happened in Little Valley that day, because I wasn't there. Doc
Carson said they had trouble with the motor and Pee-wee. He said that
Pee-wee kept running wild an day. But anyway they brought back a lot of
books with them, I'll say that much.

Well, when the day's drive was over, we all took our books to the troop
room and piled them up on the table, and waited for Mr. Ellsworth to
come. He usually comes home from the city on the Woolworth Special. We
call it the Woolworth Special because it gets to Bridgeboro at five ten.
Along about six o'clock he showed up, and we began sorting out the
books. The biggest pile was brought in by the Ravens, and when he
noticed a pile of about twenty or thirty books tied with a brown cord,
he asked where those came from. Then up jumped Pee-wee, very excited,
and said: "I'll tell you about those."

"Do tell," said Elmer Sawyer, winking at me.

"Good night! Pee-wee's got the floor," shouted Westy.

"Floor!" shouted Dorry Benton. "He's got the walls and the ceiling and
the mantelpiece and everything."

"Will you pay a little attention?" Pee-wee screamed.

"We're paying as little as possible," I told him.