through the village, and up just before you get to your first
driveway, Wugs, my handle bars come loose, and we had to get off
and fix 'em. And Beany looks up, and he says, 'Gosh! Here's
another striped coat! And ain't it on a pirate!"

"I looked and, sure 'nuff, there come along another coat just
like the one over to the swimmin' hole but if that feller was
bad, this one was worse. He had a big black mustache and he
looked at us like he'd like to eat us.

"When he went by," Beany says, 'Well, I bet he is a pirate all
right!'

"So we went on home. And after supper when we come to your
house, Wugs, why, you know about that, and there was another coat
like the others being arre'sted. Then we went back; and mother
wanted us to write it all to Uncle Jake. And the lamp made
Beany's head hot, and he took the funny thin paper we found over
to the swimmin' hole and made a sort of shade of it. And when we
had our letter done, Beany went to take down the shade and,
honest to gosh, boys, it was all written on! Wouldn't that frost
you? I s'pose you think we're lyin'; but it's true. All writin'
on two sides!"

"What did you do with it then?" demanded Wugs.

"We showed it to mom and she took it and put it in her pocket."

Wugs groaned.