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Now I'm going to start writing the next chapter and I'm going to keep writing it till the dinner gong rings, so you can see it's going to have a good ending. It has a good ending even before it starts. It ends in a rice pudding, but oh boy, wait till you see what the last one ends in. I bet you think I'm a crazy author, hey? Anyway, I have a lot of fun.
So now I guess I'll tell you how my celebrated, world renowned, crazy hikes started. First we got carried away in a railroad car and that was a dandy hike only it wasn't a hike at all, but it was like one only different. Then four of us had a bee-line hike and went straight to a place on account of a solemn vow that we wouldn't turn right or left. Then, the next one was a funny-bone hike dedicated to an insane asylum and the next time I go on one like that, I'll know it -- follow your leader, that was it; _oh boy_! Then we had a tangled trail hike where we had to keep turning to the left no matter what -- some mixup! We went home by the way of the Cape of Good Hopeless. Then, we had an elastic hike, because it stretched way out. Most of the fellows that read about our hikes like them -- no wonder, because they don't have to go on them.