"Well, a week or two later, Doc wants to know where is the package, and 
we told him this story. When he heard about that book, he flipped and told us 
that the book and the package were one and the same. By that time, you were 
already playing with that book all night and all day, Nell, and I couldn't bear 
to take it away from you, so I lied. I told him I threw the book down on the 
sidewalk when I saw it was junk, and if it wasn't still there, then someone 
else must have come along and picked it up. Doc was pissed, but he fell for 
it.