Out I went again with all of them after me, holding the chocolate bar in my mouth. I took one bite of it and threw it in the trash can. I heard Hervey do the same, then Bert, and I knew Garry and Warde could be trusted. “Keep your eye on Pee-wee,” I said. “A scout isn’t supposed to waste anything,” the kid shouted, his mouth full of chocolate. “None of that,” I shouted back. “How many bites did you take? Throw it away!” “I took—I took one bite—in two sections,” the kid said. “Come on,” I shouted. 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! wherever he goes, wherever he goes—— “Just keep your eyes open and follow your nose,” Warde said. I kept going round and round a baby carriage till we were all dizzy and even the baby began to laugh. Then I went staggering in and out and over a lot of trunks at the station, and crawled under an express wagon and hopped on one leg along the platform. Everybody was screaming at us. We were shouting those verses good and loud. There was an accommodation train standing at the station so we couldn’t get across the tracks. Gee whiz, I don’t call that very accommodating. I climbed up into the first car and started going back through the train, all the fellows after me, singing those crazy verses like a lot of wild Indians. The people in the cars stared at us. I dropped a cent in the slot and got a paper drinking cup and took a drink of water and then started carrying the cup full of water through the train. Along they came after me carrying cups of water. All of a sudden, _kerflop_, the water spilled out on my face. That was because the train had started. I guess it happened to the rest of them because the people in the seats began to howl. “Never laugh at another’s misfortune,” I said. “You may get your own faces washed some day.” “Hurry up,” Garry shouted. “What’s the difference?” Hervey said. Somebody shouted, “The next stop is Alsen.” “I hope it’s a good stop, we’ve had a good start, anyway,” Bert said. We might have got out at the end of the car, only it was a vestibule car and all closed up. “Now you see what you did,” Pee-wee shouted. I said, “Don’t you care, you don’t have to get home for four years. We ought to reach Alsen in about a year and a half.” “Hurry through to the next platform,” Garry said. I sprinted through the next car and there was an open platform there but by that time the train was moving too fast for us to get off. Safety first, that’s our motto. Crazy but safe. So then we had a meeting of the board of directors on the platform of that car till a brakeman made us go inside. I said, “The plot grows thicker.” “You’re a fine kind of a leader,” Pee-wee said, very contemptible like, I mean contemptuous. “What are we going to do now?”