"D'yer think yer cin sass me ?" "I'll show you how to catch if you'll say you'll be a scout," Pee-wee answered.

There could be no better illustration of his desperation as a scout missionary than this artless proposition to the sentinel of Barrel Alley.
"Who can't catch ?" Keekie Joe demanded.
"You can't." "Me ?" "Yes, you." "Yer dasn' say it again." "You can't catch, you can't catch, you can't catch," said Pee-wee.
There seemed nothing left now but to break off diplomatic relations altogether.

The issue was clear.

But Keekie Joe did not plunge his outlandish person into war.
"If I didn' have ter lay keekie I'd slam yer one," he announced.
"What's the use of giving you candy if we can't be friends ?" Pee-wee said.

"Gee whiz, I wouldn't care how much candy fellers threw at me; the more the merrier.