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["HEY, WHATCHA DOING?"]

TINY (sung cheerily):

Hey, whatcha doing?!?

PHIL (spoken, not looking up):

Notin the history of friendship Phil starts to read the book in front of hi Tiny tries again

TINY (sung):

Hey, whatcha reading?

PHIL (spoken):

I’ about snakes

He holds up the book It’s about snakes Again, it see will end here But Tiny persists

TINY (sung):

Hey, what’s it saying?

PHIL (spoken):

About snakes?

TINY (sung):

Yeah, about snakes TellI’ve

alanted to know about snakes but was

afraid to ask!

PHIL (spoken):

Wella lot of the up):

The longest one ever in captivity was Medusa, a

twenty-five-foot python

TINY (sung):

And?

PHIL (sung):

And Medusa’s diet included rabbits, hogs, and

deer!

TINY (bea I ever did hear!

Phil seems surprised by this sudden burst of friendship At this point, the other team members, all in uniform, come back and mill around Phil’s book disappears, and a notebook appears The other teaue is sung fro?

PHIL:

I’h math

TINY:

Math was invented by a psychopath

PHIL:

A psychopath who never takes a bath

TINY:

A stinky, smelly psychopath--

that’s who invented math

Both boys are very proud of themselves and their repartee But now there’s an aard pause Until Phil unexpectedly (to both of the?

TINY:

Just thinking, you know

PHIL: