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By Jack Joseph Smith

76 orchards’ Yes-I'm useing lanaguage like that now, I learned how when there was no other way of describing some of the crap I'have seers Of course, sometimes Idon't talk at all, I just pick up a good rock and heave it through aiwindow, where I see an excape route nears I've been counting then, .and I'm almost up +o two hyndred,’ I love it when they go through cleaw so you cam hardly hear the even glass drops And Christ almighty, can I ryn nows' I whistle through those backyards going over fences and hedgess: Whe in the night and I see a turning light, I spin to the ground and buryy myself beneath the leavess The dummys could walk over mp, and they wouldn't see mes I was talking to Deni ' about Whiskey Hollow the other days It's far aways Probably a couple of mountains : L as hene beyond Kennedy forests But if those SEiistecte pastarde- Keep om building housess A we-might have to find a new retreat¢s I'te-been: over: there-a-couple of timer with soa’ poor kid I met at Saint Bernardas He and his folks and two brothers live in a shack above-the hallows I really like him and his place-could be kind of our home base;’ It's akfakly faraway for him to be going to Saint Bernardss He said his mom read about Papa Jee-in the newspapers; Papa Joe is the man the Magiciam talked about so long ages He was the last magic&an. I ever saw: yp yatili nows’ My fathers: business PRCT ET snling around the time I started going to Saint Bernardsg so we-don't have to entertain those people as: muchg Yeah, .but there's the Country Clubs That's okey though, because I get to rym around alots Papa Joe's -real'name is Father Josep Le Lanegan, He told the-Bishop to go to Hell, because the Bishop said that nobody could go to school! outside of their own. parish; In other words:he was trying to teBl Papa Joe, that anyone that. didn't live in Mount Lebanom couldii't go to Saint Bernarddy You: see, Papa-Joe has-this football team that hasen't lost a game in the last ten years, The kids

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AI Interpretation

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The vandal life expands into rock-throwing, window-breaking, fence-running escape, dreams of Whiskey Hollow as a new hideout, and stories about Papa Joe, the rebel priest behind Saint Bernard's football power and parish defiance.

The page widens the boy's map beyond Kennedy forest, linking his private rebellion to poorer terrain, new companions, and a priest whose authority comes from open conflict rather than obedience. Papa Joe feels like another version of the strong man foretold earlier, now arriving through local legend, sports, and institutional refusal.


Claude

The rock-through-windows count approaches two hundred, retreat routes to Whiskey Hollow are being scouted, and Papa Joe is introduced via the newspaper story of telling the Bishop to go to hell so kids from anywhere can attend Saint Bernard's.