Taking sides -- Town kids -- Skippy -- Toilet paper -- Cedar chest -- Lost in the woods -- What the youngest boy learned listening to men talk -- Finding your own faucet -- Skippy's tail -- Betsy's calf -- Hide-and-seek -- Argument -- Garbage -- Matches -- Safety pin -- Little chicken -- Dream -- Becoming a better boy -- Being old enough -- Cow pies -- Knuckle cracking -- Wild steers -- Fat boy -- Variety of opportunities -- Plowed field -- Playground talk -- What was going on? -- Chicken salad crunchies -- Damaged people -- Oatmeal and raspberries -- Spare change -- Dehorning and castrating -- Learning a new word -- Just practice -- Lilac tree -- Pigeons -- Salebarn -- Strawstacks -- Simonize -- No way! -- Noisy room -- Eyes -- Thinking Skippy to do things -- Grinners -- More matches -- It's coming! -- Hooking cars -- Statue of Liberty -- Day Skippy died -- At the funeral for the man who kept cigars in his cap -- What a beautiful world!.