Pee-Wee Harris by Percy Keese Fitzhugh
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"That tells them where the place is," Pee-Wee said. "Now, you keep
the cards just the way I give them to you and always tack them up with the arrow pointing this way see? Here's a hammer and here's some tacks. When you come to a nice big tree or a wooden fence or an old barn, you're supposed to tack them up; and be sure to do it the way I tell you. Now, suppose you're going to tack up the first card--the one on the top of the pile. You tack it up and right close under it you tack up the next one, and it will say:" FRANKFURTERS SIZZLING HOT --> "Mmm--mm!" exclaimed Licorice Stick, as if a hot frankfurter had actually been produced by this ingenious card trick. "Then you go along a little way," said Pee-Wee, "till you come to another good place, maybe a fence or something, and you tack up the next one and right underneath it you tack up the next one; always take the next one off the top of the pile, see." ICE CREAM <-- COLD AND COOLING Pee-Wee repeated, holding the next two cards up. This palate tickling sleight-of-hand seemed like a miracle to the smiling, astonished messenger. Pee-Wee seemed a kind of magician summoning up luscious concoctions with a magic wand. The fifth and sixth cards were held together for a moment and lo, Licorice Stick listened to the mouth-watering announcement that peanut taffy was sweet and delicious. |
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