So now will you join the scouts?
They always carry licorice jaw-breakers in their pockets," he added as a supplementary inducement; "anyway _I_ do--lemon ones too, and strawberry ones." "How many is in your gang ?" Joe asked.
"Nobody yet," said Pee-wee, "because I haven't got it started.

But if you'll join in with me we'll start one.

You're supposed to hike and run a lot but if you want to run after fire engines and ambulances it's all right." He said this because of the favorite outdoor sport of Barrel Alley of trailing fire engines and ambulances.

"So will you join ?" he added.
They paused on the frontier of Joe's domain in the rear of the big bank building which fronted on Main Street.

Here was the makeshift sidewalk of barrel staves whence the alley derived its name.