"I'll help you out with the girls," Pee-wee said; "I know all about
girls. And I'll help you with the names of the chapters, too."

"All right," Mr. Ellsworth said, "I think Pee-wee will prove a
valuable collaborator."

"A which?" Pee-wee said, kind of frightened.

So then we all laughed and Mr. Ellsworth said it was getting late and
we'd better settle about collecting books for the soldiers.

We decided that after we got to camp I'd begin writing up our
adventures on the trip, but we couldn't decide how we'd all go in our
boat, and that was the thing that troubled us a lot, because the fellows
in our troop always hang together and we didn't like the idea of being
separated.

Well, I guess that's all there is to tell you about the meeting, and in
the next chapter I'm going to tell you all about how we collected the
books for the fellows in camp, and how the mystery about the boat was
solved. Those are Pee-wee's words about the mystery of the boat. I can't
see that there was any mystery about it, but there was another kind of a
mystery, believe me, and that kid was the cause of it. I guess maybe
you'll like the next chapter better than this one.

So long.