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Pee-Wee Harris Adrift by Percy Keese Fitzhugh
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returning from an auto ride, joined their comrades and a lively
discussion occurred. It pertained to the lawn party to be given that
evening at the home of Miss Minerva Skybrow of the Camp-fire Girls.

"What time do you have supper at your house?" Doc Carson asked Roy
Blakeley.

"We have it about eight o'clock on Saturdays," said Roy. "My father's
playing golf."

"Same here," said Artie Van Arlen; "my father has to stay late so as to
beat your father."

"If he stays at the links long enough to do that you'll never see him
again," said Roy. "What time is this racket supposed to be, anyway?"

"Eight sharp," said Grove Bronson.

"Are we going to go all separated together or all separated at once?" Roy
asked.

"Positively," said Warde Hollister.

"Positively what?" asked Connie Bennett.

"It's all the same to me, only different," said Roy. "Only this is what
I was thinking. We all have supper at different times except Pee-wee and
he has supper all the time. As Abraham Lincoln said at the battle of
Marne, 'Some people are half hungry all the time, some people are all
hungry half the time, but Pee-wee is _all_ hungry _all_ the time.' I
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