"When did you
come in?"
"We blew in with the dawn," answered Dippy.
"And we're going to blow out with the sun," added Polly Perkins.
"Say, Kid," growled Cad Morgan, rubbing his eyes sleepily as he sat
up blinking.
"His name is Bugs," interrupted Dippy.
"All right. Say, Bugs, I've got some news for you."
"I don't care about any news you've got to give out It's probably got
a bullet in it somewhere. I'm sick of bullets. What I need is a
little rest from chunks of lead. I'm coming down with nervous
prostration as it is. Everything seems to happen around me. No
matter what I do, I always get the worst of it. Why, that reminds
me---"
"Is Chunky going to tell a story?" cried Ned, stepping over the sleeping
captain as he came out.
"It sounds that way," laughed Tad. "Go on the Rangers are here to
protect us if you tell another watch story. I reckon they'll arrest
you if you try anything like that on them."
"As I was saying that reminds me of a couple of years ago when my uncle
bought a lawn mower because the grass was getting so long in our front
yard that the cats couldn't chew it---"
"Cats chew it?" jeered Dippy.
"Yes, before a rainstorm. They always do."
"Go on, go on. I'm pretty tough," urged Polly. "But don't drive me
too far or I'll buck."
"As I was about to say---"
"You said that once before."
"I offered to run the lawn mower.
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