Do you believe that about the Elks throwing him down?
Bert, there was a fellow, a big fellow, and he's a son of the man that owns this boat, and he's a lieutenant." This is just what I told him.

I said, "He's had a whole lot of dandy adventures and he took his uniform off to go fishing and hid it in the house-boat.

And then when he came to get it, the boat was gone, because his father told our troop that we could use it.

And after we got way down as far as Staten Island he sneaked on board one night and put his old clothes in the locker and took his uniform, and afterwards he dropped the key when he tried to give me some money and Skinny found it.

He found the money, too, and he gave it to Mr.Ellsworth, but he forgot about the key." "He gave it to Mr.Ellsworth, huh ?" Bert said.
"Yes, he did," I told him, "and that's why I'm going to stick to him through thick and thin, I am, I don't care what.