shirt and hat and suspenders.

"I think there's going to be something doing," Westy said. "I can feel
it in the air."

"Thank goodness, we're on top," I said.

CHAPTER XXXV

LOGIC

The man came around in front of the sign and looked up and said, "Well,
now, what do you youngsters think you're doing here?"

I said, "Well, we're not so sure but we _think_ we're sitting here."

He said, "Anybody give you permission to come on this land?"

Westy said, "No, but we know lots of people cross here and we thought it
was all right. We always heard this was a short-cut to Addison."

Then he asked us if we were going to Addison.

Westy said, "No, but it's just the same crossing your land in one place
as another. You can't blame us for thinking it was all right."

The man said, "Well, 'tain't right, by no manner o' means. You're
trespassin', that's what you're doing."

Dorry said, "We're sorry."

The man said, "Well, so'm I, because I'm goin' to make an example of
you, that's what I'm goin' to do. I'm goin' to learn you a lesson."

I said, "No lessons, this is vacation."

He said, "Haow?"

Westy said, "We're sorry, we can't do any more than say that. We thought
it was all right. I don't see what harm we do."

"Well, you'll find out," the man said, good and cross.

All of a sudden Pee-wee shouted down at him, "Anyway, we're not on your
land, we're on this sign. Has the sign got a right here?"

The man said, "Well, you youngsters, the people that pay me to let this
sign stand here don't pay me to let you climb all over it. Now you come
down off there, every one of you, and we'll see what's what. We'll see
what the jedge has to say."

"Don't go down," Dorry whispered.

"That shows how much you know about law," Pee-wee shouted down. "My
uncle's got a friend who's a lawyer. If this sign has a right here we
have a right here because we're part of the sign. You can, ask Mr. Bull
who works for Brown's Hats if we're not. Do you see what it says on this
sign? Always on top? That means us. It means us just as much as the
hats. We belong here, so there."

The man said, "Haow did you get here without trespassin'?"

I said, "That isn't the question. We're here because we're here. The
question is has the sign got a right to be here?"

"Sure," Pee-wee yelled down, "that's logic." He looked awful funny
sitting up there and shouting down at the man. "Suppose a thing has a
right to be in a place but the people th