"I bet you're the best scout in this camp.

I bet you know everything in the handbook, don't you ?" "I wouldn't know the handbook if I met it in the street," Hervey said.
Skinny seemed a bit puzzled.

"I had a bicycle that a big fellow gave me," he said, "but it broke.

Did you ever have a bicycle ?" "Well, I had one but I lost it before I got it," Hervey said.

"So I don't miss it much," he added.
"You sound as if you were kind of crazy," Skinny said.
"I'm crazy about you," Hervey laughed; and he gave Skinny a shove.
"Anyway, I like you a lot.