This acquisition was the pride of Pee-wee's life; its heavy metal stand
had long since gone the way of all junk and it could not stand
unsupported. As Pee-wee plunged it heroically in the earth and stood
holding it with one hand he looked not unlike Columbus planting the
flaunting emblem of Ferdinand and Isabella on the shore of San
Salvador, except that this tableau of the well known historical episode
was somewhat marred by the fact of his holding a half eaten banana in
his other hand. But his new friends stared with all the amazement
shown by the natives upon the landing of that other great discoverer.
Only a specific inventory can do justice to the provisions and
furniture which Pee-wee brought.
One revolving police traffic sign
One large phonograph horn
One dishpan full of crullers (taken in a masterly
assault upon the Harris pantry)
One tent
One duffel bag with cooking set
Part of a vacuum cleaner
One scout belt axe
One Thanksgiving horn
One automobile siren horn.
One lantern
Two long clothesline supporters
A towel-rack that opened like a fan
A skein of clothesline
A small kitchen-range shovel
Two boxes filled with canned goods
One box filled with loose edibles
One ice cream freezer
"Didn't you bring a cow?" Townsend asked. "We can never make ice cream
without cream."
"We're in reach of the mainland, aren't we?" Pee-wee retorted
thunderously. "It isn't as if we were going out of sight of land; gee
whiz, then I'd have brought quite a lot of stuff.
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