e," Roy came back. "Five is twice
as good as nothing."

"That shows how much you know about arithmetic," Pee-wee retorted.

"It's good the boss isn't here," Warde said, "or he'd laugh himself to
death." The boss was what they always called Blythe.

"Maybe you'll say I didn't discover _him_," Pee-wee demanded.

"You're the greatest discoverer next to Columbus, Ohio," Roy said.

"Well anyway, whoever discovered him, I like him," Warde said.

"Same here," said Roy quite ready for any topic of conversation. "I
can't make him out but I like him."

"He's just down and out, sort of," Warde said. "Maybe he's been sick.
That's the way it seems to me. But he likes us and I like him. It's fun
to see him smile."

"I wonder where he came from?" Roy asked, as they made their way across
fields. "He never says anything about where he belongs or anything."

"Maybe he doesn't know," Warde said.

"We shouldn't worry about his history," said Roy. "He's all right and
that's enough. And he's going up to Temple Camp with us if I can get him
to."

"I--" began Pee-wee.

"Sure, you discovered Temple Camp," said Roy. "You discovered the North
Pole and the South Pole and the clothes pole and the Atlantic Ocean and
Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company and you've got them all down in your
little book."

"No joking," said Warde. "I was--"

"I never joke," said Roy, "except from Mondays to Saturdays, and on
Sundays, morning, afternoon and evening."

Warde tried again, "I was going to ask you about test four."

"I'll tell you about it," said the irrepressible Pee-wee.

"How about writing the satisfactory account?"

"It doesn't include worms and ginger snaps," said Roy.

"But what's the usual way?" Warde persisted.

Seeing his new member to be serious and knowing with what a fine
conscience Warde sought every honor, Roy answered him with the best
knowledge he had.

"This is the way Mr. Ellsworth says," he answered. "You must describe
everything that might be helpful to your troop or to other troops or to
the whole country, maybe. That's the way it is. Everything that's
important or unusual you must notice.

"Mostly Mr. Ellsworth or one of the local council in Bridgeboro goes
over the ground and sees if the account is satisfactory. In some troops
they don't do that. If it's just written up all right they say it's all
right and let it go at that. But Mr. Ellsworth says it isn't just the
description that counts; it's whether you not