It had to stop because I was gulping and all excited, but I started again, you can bet.
"And there's only one thing more I've got to say," I told them.

"I got on the trail--I mean Skinny's trail.

And it took me to his house in Barrel Alley.

I picked up his trail down at Little Landing and it had the scout's pathfinder sign printed in the mud.

And I--I'm--I'm a scout, I am, I don't care what you say, and I followed it.