" The Farmer was posting an additional sign, offering "Twice National Champion" Fly""s sheepdog pups FOR SALE, as the Narrator commented:"The time comes for all creatures when childhood ends and the doorway opens to life as an adult.His father is aghast.The first mate suggests that Bill, Sr.clunk his son over the head with a heavy wrench, adding: "No jury would convict you." On his way up to the prow of the steamboat, Willie stumbles into a deckhand, and ineptly sends a life preserver overboard.Now he fact that she carried it out indicates psychopathic obsessive behavior in terms not only of the killing itself but also in terms of applied advance defense mechanism.After Roddy left the dance, Lige and Sourdough led Letty into the back room to propose o her.Cora enthusiastically informed her husband that Letty might receive marriage proposals - she was fully supportive of the idea.