If you come to a cross-road don’t make a mistake, Choose a road, and the _other’s_ the one you should take. Don’t bother with sign boards but follow this song, If you start on the right road you’re sure to go wrong. You can go on your feet, you can go on a bike, But the right way is wrong when you start on a hike.” Gee whiz, I guess we sat there about half an hour. Most of the time we were jollying Pee-wee; that’s our favorite outdoor sport. And all the time we were all sitting facing the same way just like an audience. We were kind of lazy like. We felt kind of lazy and silly, I guess. Warde said, “This is a very nice boat, I like the inside of it better than the outside.” “The outside of it isn’t a boat at all,” the kid grumbled. I said, “Well, if it hasn’t got an outside how can it have an inside? That shows how much you know about geometry.” “Outside this boat, is that a boat?” he yelled. “Absolutely, positively,” I said. “For goodness’ sake pick up that rag under your feet and wash your face with it. You brought all the mud from the bottom of the outlet along with you. You look like a mud-pie.” “Will you keep still about pie!” he hollered. “How long are we going to sit here like a lot of fools? Just because we made a crazy resolution——” “Our honor is at stake,” Brent said. “Look at Sandwich, he went home,” the kid grumbled. “How can I look at him then?” I said. “Anyway he didn’t vow any vow.” Then Hervey started singing: “We vowed a vow, We vowed a vow, And now we’re marooned on a padlocked scow.” Pretty soon all of us were singing: “We’re here because we’re here, We cannot get away; The path to the left has turned to the right. And here we’re going to stay, And here we’re going to stay; For that’s the only way.” All of a sudden Hervey shouted, “I’ve got an idea!” Then he pulled up the stake that was stuck in the water near the stern of the boat. A chain went from the boat to that stake, and there was a padlock, but it wasn’t much good when he pulled the stake up. He said, “Ha, ha, we are shaved, I mean saved. This alters the whole face of nature. Just a minute and the trail will be on our left, and the hike can continue along the same lines as before.” “Not for me!” Pee-wee shouted. “I’m sitting here, and I’m going to stay sitting here, I don’t care what happens!” “Well, anyway, take that rag that’s under your feet and wash your face with it,” I told him. “I won’t do that either,” he said; “I’m tired of this whole business. I’m going to stay here till I get good and rested.”