He usually comes home from the city on the Woolworth Special.

We call it the Woolworth Special because it gets to Bridgeboro at five ten.
Along about six o'clock he showed up, and we began sorting out the books.

The biggest pile was brought in by the Ravens, and when he noticed a pile of about twenty or thirty books tied with a brown cord, he asked where those came from.

Then up jumped Pee-wee, very excited, and said: "I'll tell you about those." "Do tell," said Elmer Sawyer, winking at me.
"Good night! Pee-wee's got the floor," shouted Westy.
"Floor!" shouted Dorry Benton.

"He's got the walls and the ceiling and the mantelpiece and everything." "Will you pay a little attention ?" Pee-wee screamed.
"We're paying as little as possible," I told him.
"You're the worst of the lot," he yelled; "that pile of books, the ones with the brown cord, were given to us by a kindly old gentleman; he--.
"A which ?" Doc Carson said.
"Don't you know a kindly old gentleman when you see one ?" Pee-wee fairly screamed.
"Let's see one," Artie shouted.
And that's the way it went on till Mr.Ellsworth came to Pee-wee's rescue like he always does.