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Bart is predictably devastated, but the plot thread wraps itself up all too neatly when Bart gets Laura to see through Jimbo’s bad-boy façade by framing Jimbo for one of his own habitual crank calls to Moe.

I'm afraid I've given him a heap of trouble. You see, he explained, looking at Paul critically, I never thought of eating before I left town, and one gets so dogged hungry, you know walking. I say it is a long tramp, isn't it?

And little lathy Charles with his long, narrow white face and obstinate chin, is no A B C of a boy.