The mention of Lem's book seemed like a right, smart opportunity for Davis to git Charlie to lissin to him, and he leaned forwards and told Charlie in a kinda knowin' way, "I come up on him wunst while he was a-lookin' at it-in the wagon. He was a-sittin' there with his eyes closed, a-lookin' all dreamy like. Soon's he saw me, he quick shut it and chucked it under his aprin so's I wouldn't see.'" "He sure do act strange 'bout that thing," one of the boys said. Wonder what it is that makes him so all fired intristed in it." Charlie Yates sat back a-grinnin'. "I'll tell you what it is!" He chuckled. "Ha-ha, that grizzly old coot! It's a book fulla dirty pitchers!-is what it is!" "Yeah! I betcha!" Davis agreed with a smirk. No wonder he chucked it under his aprin so quick!" "And no wonder he was a-lookin' so dreamy-eyed too!" another feller said, laffin'. It was an innocent misconception of the facts, but it put the life of Lem, the "Lamb," in mortal jeopardy! ...

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