_ You've got to come over our way and get yourself discovered.
These scouts need a shack to meet in and a lot of stuff. They want to give
their scoutmaster a welcome home. He was in the scrap same as you and I.
It all hangs on that hundred dollars, Jib. I'm sorry, but you'll have to be
the goat. That young fellow Gaylong is a double barrel scout and he's
trying to pull through with that outfit of kids. He wouldn't take a cent as
an ordinary present. I've got his number, Of course, if you've got the
instinct of a baboon that doesn't mean anything to you. But all over the
fences in this happy berg, Costello is wanting to know if you're human. You
can't show you're human just by taking off that bear skin and washing your
face. I want to know if you're _human_ or not."
"Run out and ask Costello for a couple of marvelous, matchless matches,
will you, Roy?"
CHAPTER XXXII
JIB JAB TURNS OUT TO BE HUMAN
So that's all I can tell you about their talk, because when I went back
Harry was waiting for us near the entrance. All I can tell you is what
happened. On the way back through the woods Harry wouldn't talk at all,
only he said that the scouts were a blamed nuisance and he guessed he'd go
and work in a circus.
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