“I'm not digging any more holes,” said Zero. “They won't make you dig,” Stanley promised.
They'll probably send you to a hospital, like Barf Bag.“Barf Bag stepped on a rattlesnake,” said Zero.
Stanley remembered how he'd almost done the same. “I guess he didn't hear the rattle.” “He did it on purpose,” said Zero.
“You think?” “He took off his shoe and sock first.” Stanley shivered as he tried to imagine it.
“What's Mar-ya Luh-oh-oo?” asked Zero. “What?” Zero concentrated hard. “Mar ya, Luh oh oo.”
“I have no idea.” “I'll show you,” said Zero. He crawled back out from under the boat.
Stanley followed. Back outside, he had to shield his eyes from the brightness.
Zero walked around to the back of the boat and pointed to the upside-down letters. “Mm-ar-yuh. Luh-oh-oo.”
Stanley smiled. “Mary Lou. It's the name of the boat.” “Mary Lou,” Zero repeated, studying the letters.
“I thought ‘y’ made the ‘yuh’ sound.” “It does,” said Stanley.
“But not when it's at the end of a word. Sometimes ‘y’ is a vowel and sometimes it's a consonant.”
Zero suddenly groaned. He grabbed his stomach and bent over. “Are you all right?”
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