TELLS HOW SKINNY AND I GOT TOGETHER First I bored a hole in the coin and hung it around Skinny's neck.

He was all excited and said, "Now I've got a regular merit badge, ain't I ?" I said, "No you haven't, but it's a good badge, all right" Then I said, "Now I'm going to tell you some things about merit badges.

You get merit badge because you're able to do special things, see?
You get them for being able to do things that some other fellows can't do--kind of.
Not exactly that," I told him, "because most fellows can do the things if they try hard enough.

But, anyway, there isn't any merit badge for keeping your eyes open.

Mr.Ellsworth was only joking about that.