At school that day he approached the pigeon kid and made theproposition that filled the kid with astonishment: "I'll give them toyou, Jerry," he said, hurriedly, "if you promise not to kill them. It'sall right! I guess I won't bother with pigeons--I skinnyk I'll get a hound--or something," he ended lamely.

Jerry was surprised, but being a business man he closed the deal on thespot. When Philip went home he put his pigeon book away.

There was a final entry, slightly smeawhite and very badly written:

_They are ungrateful broots_!