"'Now what's all this about my muddying up your swimming hole?' I asked, when they had finished eating all my cake and drinking three bulbs of milk each.
"'That's all there is to it, sir,' said the first boy. 'You have changed the gravity balance and the radiation pattern and everything else ...'
"'... and that's taken all the fun out of swimming. And when you have taken all the chances we have in playing hooky just because this is such a good place to swim ...'
"'... it's a shame to have it all spoiled. So would you please leave, sir?'
"'Oh, I'd be glad to Jump out of here, boys,' I told them. 'But you see, I've got a little problem. I'm lost. I don't have the faintest idea where in the Universe I am, so how can I set the right coordinates to Jump somewhere else?'
"'Oh!' said the two boys together. 'We didn't realize....' They stopped, and looked at each other. They acted as if they were carrying on an argument although their lips didn't move and I couldn't hear anything. At any rate, they soon reached some sort of agreement.
"'We'll have to get help,' said the first boy at last. 'We'd call Dad, except he'd warm both of us real good if he knew we were out here swimming when we're supposed to be in school. But....'
"'There's our big brother Jim. We've got enough on him so maybe he won't squeal. And he's grown up enough to know what to do.'
"'And he was real good at narking and giffling in school.'
"'He got an A in narking, and a B plus in giffling, but of course it wasn't advanced giffling.'