"What's the matter?" his father asked him. "You haven't given up going fishing have you?" "No!" Johnnie answered. "I'm going to harness Twinkleheels to the buggy. And I'll cut a pole at the creek." His father said nothing more. But he smiled a little to himself when Johnnie wasn't looking his way. "Boys will be boys," Farmer Green remarked after Johnnie had gone.