"I bet you don't know as much as Miss Bellson does."

"I bet I don't either," Pee-Wee said, "so I win."

"She's the school teacher here and she knows everything."

"Did she know I was coming?"

"No she didn't and--"

"Then she doesn't know everything," Pee-Wee said.

"Smarty, smarty!" the girl retorted, "I came out of an orphan home
and that's more than you can say.".

"You only get one helping of dessert there," said Pee-Wee. "I'd
rather be a scout than an orphan. I know a feller who was an orphan
and he was sorry for it afterwards."

"Are you going to stay all summer?"

"Till school opens," Pee-Wee said.

"Do you want me to show you where there's a woodchuck hole?"

At this point Pee-Wee was summoned again to the kitchen where he
ate a sumptuous repast, after which Pepsy and Wiggle took him about
and showed him the farm.

Pee-Wee and Pepsy fenced a good deal but seemed to progress in this