THE ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT OF PEPSY’S REST HAD TWO STEADY EMPLOYEES.
Hey, listen!
A lot of scouts said I was put out of the Tom Slade Series and so I hadto go into the Roy Blakeley Series. And a lot of them said I was putout of the Roy Blakeley Series and that on account of that I started aseries of my own. They said I had to get the author who wrote up TomSlade’s adventures to help me. And a lot of them said if I didn’t lookout, I’d be put out of this series, too.
That shows how much sense they have, because how can a person that’sthe main thing in a thing put himself out of that thing? Anyway, I’dlike to see anybody put me out of this series. If they tried that itwould be the best part of all the stories.
Maybe when this series is finished I’ll be the only one left in it, buta lot I care because the fewer fellers there are the more there will beto eat. Roy Blakeley said if I’m writing a series the most importantthing is to write close to the paper—that shows you how crazy he is.Gee whiz! He looks like a laughing hyena on the covers of those bookshe’s all the time writing.
Tom Slade isn’t so bad. I like Tom Slade. Only he doesn’t know anythingabout girls—that’s one thing—I know all about them.
Last summer I went down to where my uncle lives and spent vacationthere and I had a peach of a time and all the things I did are told inthe first story, but there are a lot of things left over and I’m goingto tell these in another story. There are snakes and peach orchards andeverything down there.
Then comes the second story and that’s about a dandy mistake I made.Gee whiz! I’ve made better mistakes than any feller in our troop. Ididn’t make it on purpose, but anyway it led to a lot of dandyadventures. That’s one good thing about mistakes, anyway. But one thingsure, if I had got into the right automobile I would have just goneabout two blocks. So that shows that the wrong one may even be betterthan the right one. Only you bet I’m not going to tell you all aboutthat story here.
Then comes the third one and that’s the one where I started thePollywog Patrol.