"Fred had something strange-looking sticking out of the pocket of his overalls. I was curious about it. It looked like something I had never seen before.
‘What’s that in your pocket, Fred?’
‘I found it today coming through the woods up from the Watermelon Works. I don’t know what it is myself. I’ve never seen anything like it before. What do you think it is?’
He took it out of his pocket and handed it to me. I didn’t know how to hold it. I tried to hold it like you would a flower and a rock at the same time.
‘How do you hold it?’ I said.
‘I don’t know. I don’t know anything about it.’"