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By Jack Joseph Smith

48 Lets go back ups oxy, .dut real careful, ody, ik neh 80 we started sneeking up the hill again, but then said, hey, lets go along the hill again and leek at Kennedy forest, We had changed our minds and buckled in the exeitement of high advedture, but then we sew a trail and we went like rabbits threugh the under grewth back to get more comrada | fer the picking ef the appless I was asking lees questions at heme now and thinking mostly about hew I i could ‘expand each mement inte an adventure My parents were becoméng really happy, because ‘they could now afford anything that they thought was going , 7 to make their life-dreams a reality. My mother would be able te have her pperations and having a maid now would be a nice added thing fer our homes I weuld be starting Kindergarden in the fatl'and they were begining to lock at me as being a schoel bey, It was mentioned all the timeszabout how e eld I was-getings And abeut hew ready for school I was geing te be, and ' hew much fun I was geing te have meeting new-friendss I didn't care much about my fathers business friends anymore and mostly used thetr coming: as’ a@ part ef my disappearing acts My fathers business orientation was ever, i and when he was home en the weekend his mind was free te plan. eut the greunds and make-décisions abeut what nursery he was going to hire fer the gardening; All’ was going well, and I was being nicely subsidized for my : putting the-world in its places That night I dreamed’ about Mister Metzes coming after us with a gum ageing i but the next morning I was up early fer breakfast and premieing my mother all

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Adventure thinking hardens into habit as the boys switch from fear to planning, while home life brightens around money, operations, gardening, school readiness, and a child newly confident in using adult attention as cover for disappearing acts.

The transcript opens mid-motion, but the clearest shape is the split between prosperous domestic order and the boy's private campaign to stretch each moment into danger and story. Mister Metzes returns in dream form, showing that the household's new comfort does not quiet the imagination so much as bankroll it.


Claude

Michael's home life expands in parallel to his adventures: the mother's looming operations, the added maid, kindergarten talk from the adults, and his father's weekend planning of gardens while Michael subsidizes himself for putting the world in its place.