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Well, for about a day I guess Bony thought he was about the smartest kid that ever lived. Anyhow, he acted that way and the reason was that his house had been burglared and mine and Swatty's houses hadn't been. But that wasn't our fault.
Swatty didn't say much because he thought maybe the burglar would come around and burglar his house and then he would be as good as Bony. But the burglar didn't go to any more houses, and me and Swatty got pretty sick and tired of hearing Bony bragging about the burglar climbing right in at his window and almost falling over his bed, and about how -- if he had wakened up -- he would have gone into his father's room and got his father's shotgun and shot the burglar.