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Pee-Wee Harris by Percy Keese Fitzhugh
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can't handle people that are crazy, can you? I can handle scoutmasters
even."

Pepsy was willing to believe anything of her hero and she said,
"They were a lot of freshies and I hate them anyway."

Pee-Wee did not trouble himself about what the man had said. His
chief interest was the dollar and ten cents of working capital which
they now had and how to invest it. In his enthusiasm he had been rather
premature in his advertisement of auto accessories, and he now purposed
to make good at least one of these announcements by commissioning Simeon
Drowser to buy some ten-cent rolls of tire tape for him at Baxter City,
whither Simeon went daily.

He started along the road to the post office where he hoped to catch
Simeon before that worthy left for Baxter City. But he did not reach the
post office. The first interruption to his progress was one of his own
two-card signs staring him in the face from a roadside tree:

CHEWING GUM
FOR PUNCTURES

He paused scowling before this novel announcement.

His gaze then wandered to a fence on which he read the astounding
words:

PANCAKES FOR
HEADLIGHTS

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