Cal and Toby sit on the roof of the bowling alley and discuss Zachary's baptism. Cal wants Toby to find out how to do it since he is Baptist and they do baptisms when the person is older, like Zachary is. Toby does not understand why this is so important to Cal, but agrees to ask. While they talk, the boys see Kate stop at Zachary's and take a bag full of something with her. Later they discover that she has taken his laundry to wash it.
On Friday, after cutting Miss Myrtie Mae's lawn, Toby asks her how someone would be baptized. Miss Myrtie Mae tells Toby that he would have to go to the church and talk to the preacher, something Zachary clearly cannot do.
When Toby is nearly finished with his work,.....
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