There's no chain, but he has it on a string, and he likes to twirl the locket so that it bunches up the string,
and then watch it unwind, spinning around with the sun flicking into his eyes.
Sometimes when the kids play catch they let him play in the middle and he tries to get the ball before one of them catches it.
He likes to be in the middleeven if he never catches the ball
and once when Hymie Roth dropped the ball by mistake and he picked it up they wouldn't let him throw it but he had to go in the middle again.
When Harriet passes by, the boys stop playing and look at her.
All the boys love Harriet. When she shakes her head her curls bounce up and down, and she has dimples.
Charlie doesn't know why they make such a fuss about a girl and why they always want to talk to her
(he'd rather play ball or kick- the-can, or ringo-levio than talk to a girl) but all the boys are in love with Harriet so he is in love with her too.
She never teases him like the other kids, and he does tricks for her.
He walks on the desks when the teacher isn't there. He throws erasers out the window, scribbles all over the blackboard and walls.
And Harriet always screeches and giggles, "Oh, lookit Charlie. Ain't he funny? Oh, ain't he silly?"
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