What did we care? One girl
said she wished she was a boy; girls are always saying that. So that proves
we have plenty of fun. I could see Harry Donnelle wink at Mr. Warner while
the latter (that means Mr. Warner) was getting the sodas ready. Then all
of a sudden Harry said:
_"Attention! Present spoons. Go!"_
So then we all started at once and that was the beginning of the big hike.
Just as I told you, it started at the top of the glasses in Warner's and
ended in the bottom of the glasses at Bennett's.
When you hear me say _M-mm-that's good_ in Bennett's, you'll know the hike
is over.
CHAPTER V
I GO ON AN ERRAND
"Now to skirt the lonesome Catskills," Harry said.
"Now to what them?" Dorry Benton asked him.
"Skirt them," he said, "that's Latin for hiking around the edge of them.
We don't want to be all the time stumbling over mountains."
"Believe _me_, if I see one in the road, I'll tell you," I said.
"And we don't want to get mixed up with panthers and wild cats either,"
Harry said. And he gave me a wink.
"There aren't any wild animals in the Catskills," Charlie Seabury said.
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