Lenny dodges Mousie until the Sunday afternoon when Lenny is giving a ten-cent comic performance on his roof. Kids' rumor has it that he's pushed one kid off a roof and killed another over a comic book. True, Mousie tripped him first, but Mousie is notorious. But his most dangerous move is tripping mean Mousie Blatner at the movies. Lenny does some rash and childish things, such as duck out to play jungle commando with the new knife he's not supposed to carry and the fur stole of his tight-lipped Aunt Harriet.
His comic lines (Conford has either found a period treasury or has been saving them up for years) are appreciated by his best friend Artie, and Lenny in turn admires the vocabulary of Artie, who is Increasing his Word Power via the Reader's Digest. It is 1946 (with lots of little reminders) Lenny Kandell's father was killed in World War II and Lenny, eleven, dreams of becoming a professional comic.
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