You'll get a second helping of
dessert some day. Come on, who's going? Pile in. Mighty good of you,
Jim."
A brief moment's inspection of the shed and they were off. Jim Burton
drove the car and by him sat Scoutmaster Ned. The others, Safety First,
Nick Vernon, Fido Norton and Charlie Norris, sat in back.
"Too many?" asked Scoutmaster Ned.
"She rides better with a load," said Jim Burton.
"I don't suppose there's much chance," said Ned. "You notified the
cops, didn't you, Nick? Good. The battery is low and there isn't any
crank on my bus and my only hope is that she'll lay down on them. Soak
it to her, Jim."
"Do you want to stop and look at the tire marks yourself?" asked Norton.
"It was that new Goodyear that I was tracking, the one that's all
crisscross."
"You tracked it past the East road? So they didn't turn down there?
Sure?"
"Yop."
"That's enough. Let's see her step, Jim."
Jim "soaked it to her" and she stepped. Not a bit of fuss did she make
over it.
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