Dear jounal #7

The next morning Brinker comes to my room to congratulate me on having such a big room. Brinker said " I'll bet you knew all the time Finny wouldn't be back this fall. That's why you picked him for a roommate rite?" I told him "Don't be nutty Brinker". I got sick of what he was saying to me so i said lets go have a cigerette in the "Butt Room", which was the basement. When we got down there, Brinker was telling everyone that he brought the prisoner that got accused of killing his roommate. All the boys there said that I pushed Finny off the branch, so I didn't even talk to them or look at the for the rest of the time I was there for. I left after awhile because I had to go study my French and I didn't even get to smoke, which was the reason I went to the Butt Room. In the wartime labor shortages we had to shovel the snow off of the railroad and we got money in return, which helped out a lot for me. On my way to go shovel I saw Leper in the meadow cross-country skiing. He told me that he is trying to find a beaver dam on the Devon River and invites me to come see it sometime. After shoveling the railroad with the boys, we all took the train back to Devon and we saw Leper coming back from trying to find the beaver dam. When Brinker saw Leper, he makes fun of him and Leper comes over to me and says he is tired of school and wants to enlist tomorrow. That night I thought and thought about enlisting as well and I finally made my decision and said yea I will do it too. When I got back to my room guess who was there? Finny. I had no idea he was coming and was very surprised and confused why he was in my room and didn't tell me he was coming.