That's what
he said, and it was his own foolishness, because Verman won't let
ANYBODY call him 'nigger', and if Georgie was goin' to call him
that he ought to had sense enough not to do it when he was layin'
down that way and Verman all ready to be the paddler. And he
needn't of been so mad at the rest of us, either, because it took
us about twenty minutes to get the paddle away from Verman after
that, and we had to lock Verman up in the laundry-room and not
let him out till it was all over. Well, and then things were kind
of spoiled, anyway; so we didn't do but just a little more--and
that's all."
"Go on! What was the 'just a little more?'"
"Well--we got him to swaller a little teeny bit of asafidity that
Penrod used to have to wear in a bag around his neck. It wasn't
enough to even make a person sneeze--it wasn't much more'n a half
a spoonful--it wasn't hardly a QUARTER of a spoonf--"
"Ha!" said Mr. Williams. "That accounts for the doctor. What
else?"
"Well--we--we had some paint left over from our flag, and we put
just a little teeny bit of it on his hair and--"
"Ha!" said Mr.
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