Chapter 2

The next morning when Finny and I woke up Mr. Prud'homme showed up at our dorm. He is a substitute teacher for the summer and he likes to enforce laws. He knew that we missed dinner and he wasn't to happy about it. "He enforced such rules as he knew; missing dinner was one of them" (14). But sense Finny is so good at talking his way out of things nothing came upon it. We go down to have some tea with Mr. Patch-Withers and some classmates. We all talk then Mrs. Patch-Withers notices that Finny is wearing the school tie as a belt. I am excited to see how much trouble he is going to get in. Mrs Patch-Withers yells "I have never heard anything so illogical as that in my life!" (20). As always Finny talked his way out of it. The thing that surprised everyone was when he made Mr Patch-Withers laugh when he said "I'm glad i put on something for a belt! I certainly would hate the embarrassment of having my pants fall down at the Headmaster's tea" (21). As we leave the party we decide to go jump off the tree once again. We decide to jump off the tree together to secure our friendship and our new society. As i was about to say something i began to slip. Finny grabbed my arm, thank god, and i regained my balance. We then continues on and jumped off the limb. Later that night i realized the Finny may have saved me from dieing. "Finny had practically saved my life" (24).