So the first thing I knew I was marching along with the other fellows behind me and they were all singing those verses and kind of marching in step to them. Gee whiz, we couldn’t get those verses out of our heads. It was awfully funny to hear Pee-wee shouting them. Even now it seems as if I have to write them down and I guess there’ll have to be an operation to get them out of my mind. I lie awake at night and say them. If you once get those verses in your head, _good night_! Most all the rest of that day we were singing them. I guess the people in Catskill Landing thought we were a lot of lunatics. So now I’m going to write those verses down again But you want to be careful not to let them get you or you’ll come to be a raving maniac. If you do you can blame Hervey Willetts. Don’t ask where you’re headed for nobody knows, Just keep your eyes open and follow your nose; Be careful, don’t trip and go stubbing your toes, But follow your leader wherever he goes. Don’t start to go back if it freezes or snows, Don’t weaken or flunk or suggest or oppose; Your job is to follow and not to suppose, And follow your leader wherever he goes. Don’t quit or complain at the stunts that he shows. Don’t ask to go home if it rains or it blows; Don’t start to ask questions, or hint, or propose, But follow your leader wherever he goes! CHAPTER III WE GO SOUTH When we started that crazy game we were near the landing. Maybe it would have been better if we had jumped into the Hudson. But instead of that I started marching up toward the railroad station with all the fellows after me, singing that song. I went leap frog over a barrel and the rest of them did the same, singing, _Follow your leader wherever he goes_. All the while Pee-wee stuck on the top of the barrel because his legs were so short, but as long as he was the last one it didn’t make any difference. “Take a demerit,” I shouted back at him. “What do you think you are? A statue?” “He looks like a barrel buoy,” Garry shouted. “Don’t look back, keep singing,” Hervey called to Garry. “Never mind what’s behind you.” “Sure, think of the future,” Warde said. “And follow your leader wherever he goes. Wherever he goes, Wherever he goes, Wherever he goes.” I went waltzing into a candy store, and picked up a five cent chocolate bar and laid down a nickel and kept going in and out around the ice cream tables. All the people in there started laughing. One girl spilled a glass of root beer that she was drinking. All of us fellows had small change, we never have any large change, so nothing happened to block the parade.