That is all, Wesleigh, unless you have something to say." Oh, gee, you should have heard the silence--I don't mean heard it--but there wasn't a sound.

Then Westy said, "I haven't got anything to say." And then he sat down.
I knew that it was time then for me to do what I wanted to do, but I couldn't get up because I felt all shaky.

I was holding to the pole of the Silver Fox emblem that was right beside me, and, oh cracky, I felt funny.

All of a sudden I heard Mr.Ellsworth say that he wouldn't say anything to Roy Blakeley because the patrol was going to have an election and then I heard Will Dawson, of my patrol, say under his breath, sort of, that there'd be only one fellow to vote for me, and I knew he meant Westy Martin.

Gee, I'm glad I heard him say that because it gave me a kind of an idea what to say and it made me mad, and when you're mad you have courage--you know what I mean, you can get up and talk.