Wiggle's life to be a scout for he released the locust to Pee-Wee,
wagging his tail frantically.

"You have to be loyal, too," the young propagandist said; "that's
a rule. You have to be helpful and think up ways to help people. No
matter what happens you have to be loyal."

"Do you have to be loyal to orphan homes?" Pepsy wanted to know.
"If they lick you do you have to be loyal to them?"

Here was a poser for the scout. But being small Pee-Wee was able
to wriggle out of almost anything. "You have to be loyal where
loyalty is due," he said. "That's what the rule says; it's Rule Two.
But, anyway, there's another rule and that's Rule Seven and it says
you have to be kind. You can't be kind licking people, that's one sure
thing. So it's a technicality that you don't have to be loyal to an
orphan home. You can ask any lawyer because that's what you call logic."

"Deadwood Gamely's father is a lawyer," Pepsy said, "and I hate
Deadwood Gamely and I wouldn't go to his house to ask his father.
He's a smarty and I hit him with a tomato. Have I got a right to
do that--if he's a smarty?"

Here was another legal technicality, but Pee-Wee was equal to the
occasion. "A--a scout has to be a--he has to have a good aim," he said.


CHAPTER VII

A BIG IDEA