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Title: Roy Blakeley's motor caravan
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Fitzhugh, Percy Keese, 1876-1950
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Publisher: New York : Grosset & Dunlap
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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it thatway. Then he said, Let us have peace, becausethat was what General Grant said, too. Pee-weethought he said, Lets have a piece, so hechucked a licorice jaw-breaker up and it struckHarry, kerplunk, on the face. That was the beginning of hostilities. Pee-wee fired the first shot. CHAPTER XXXIV TR-R-AITORS! / THAT was the only shot in the whole war. Itwas a punk war. Harry said, Let the bloodshedcease; wholl volunteer to go in as a courier? Pee-wee shouted, I will. So Harry gave him the note and told him tostick a white popcorn bar on a stick for a flag oftruce. Honest, if you could have seen that kidstart off with the note in one hand and that pop-corn flag of truce in the other and his mouth allstuck up with licorice candy, youd have laughedtill you cried. We waited for about ten minutes but still hedidnt come out, so Harry called for another vol-unteer and Westy went in, because he said hecould remember just what was in the note. Good night, he didnt come out again, either. 176
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WERE MAKING A DESPERATE CAVALRY CHARGE, SHOUTED PEE-WEE.Roy Blakeleys Motor Caravan. PaSe MOTOR CARAVAN 177 Harry said, This is very strange; theyve eitherdeserted or theyre being held as prisoners. Then Charlie Seabury said hed go in, so hepinned a marshmallow onto his buttonhole andwent through the admission gate. But he didntcome back, either. Pretty soon five of the fellows had gone in—all the fellows in my patrol except myself. Andnone of them came back. We decided that theywere all being held as prisoners. Harry said, This is not civilized warfare atall—not to respect a flag of truce. I said, Gee whiz, I never heard of a fellowthat wouldnt respect a marshmallow or a pop-corn bar. Even I respect gum drops. Brent said, Well, the only thing to do is toenter the grounds and seize the rifles in the shoot-ing gallery. If we can surround the dining pa-vilion and seize all the sandwiches, we can cut offtheir base of supplies and force a surrender.What say, comrades? Harry said that

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