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"Oh, boy, oh, boy! Now I got two! Now they'll be happy! Maybe they'll have babies, huh?"

He overlooks the fact that I caught this one.

Oh, well, I don't want a lizard, anyway.

Cat'd probably eat it.

Ben takes it from me and slips it in the lunchbox.

"I'm going to call this one Big Brownie."

Finally he calms down enough to eat lunch, taking peeks at his catch between mouthfuls.

As soon as he's finished eating, he starts hustling to get home so he can make a house for them.

He really acts like a kid.

We get on the subway.

It's aboveground—elevated—up here in the Bronx.

After a while I see Yankee Stadium off to one side, which is funny because I don't remember seeing it when we were coming up.

Pretty soon the train goes underground.

I remember then.

Coming up, we changed trains once.

Ben has his eye glued to the edge of the lunchbox and he's talking to Redskin, so I figure there's no use consulting him.

I'll just wait and see where this train seems to come out.

It's got to go downtown.

We go past something called Lenox Avenue, which I think is in Harlem, then Ninety-sixth Street, and then we're at Columbus Circle.

"Hey, Ben, we're on the West Side subway," I say.

"Yeah?" He takes a bored look out the window.

"We can just walk across town from Fourteenth Street."

"With you I always end up walking. Hey, what about those extra tokens?"

"Aw, it's only a few blocks. Let's walk."

Ben grunts, and he goes along with me.