Scoop laughed again and told her about the patch.
“I thought it would be fun,” she explained, “to disguise myself.”
“One time we did that,” grinned Scoop, referring to our adventure in solving the mystery of the whispering mummy, “and got into a peck of trouble.”
Mrs. Kelly looked at me and smiled.
“Didn’t you know, Jerry, that your ma gave me your ould corduroy pants to cut up for patches?”
I didn’t know it, and I told her so.
Scoop let his forehead go puckered.
“ ‘Ten and ten,’ ” he repeated, thinking. He [[111]]looked at Mrs. Kelly. “Did you say it’s in the Bible?”
The Book was still on the kitchen table. Mrs. Kelly turned to the tenth chapter of Genesis. Under “Chapter” and “X” was a penciled line with the ends turned up at right angles. And the same kind of a mark was under the tenth verse. Like this:
Chapter X
10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.