But anyway, I kept on and I held on tight to my emblem--the Silver Fox emblem.
"So that's what I mean," I said, "and, this morning Westy was on his way to help on the house-boat and he met" (oh, jiminies, I guess I didn't know how I was talking now, I was so excited) "and he met Skinny McCord's mother and she told him about Skinny being sick on account of a good turn he did for me--keeping Jake Holden from going to my house--and she asked him to go up and stay with him and he didn't think any more about the house-boat, and I'm glad he didn't, and I told him that, and I'm his patrol leader yet, anyway.

I tell him that, I do! And he went home and got his baseball and his catching mitt and it cost a dollar and seventy-five cents, and he took them to Skinny just so as he'd kind of forgot being sick.

Westy saved up to get that mitt and I know all about it.

And he stayed all day with Skinny and the doctor says, he says Skinny has got to die, but anyway Westy stayed all day with him--that's what he did.

And I'm glad you fellows are going to elect a new leader if you want him to reprimand Westy, be cause you'd never get me to do it, I can tell you that!" Oh, crinkums, there wasn't a sound.