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Using your best inference strategies, do your best to make inferences about the preceeding passage. I'd only halfway listened to what Grandma Sands had said, and now me and Joey and Byron were standing at a sign with arrows that pointed in two directions. The one pointing to the left said "Public Swimming" and the other one, pointing to the right, looked like it had been on the post for a million years but if you got close to it you could read, "WARNING! NO TRESPASSING! NO SWIMMING! NO PUBLIC ENTREE! Signed Joe Collier."
 * Inference Lesson**
 * Questions**


 * 1) Why does Mr. Collier not want people to stay away?**

"Oh, man! Collier's Landing," I said. "Let's go!" I knew Joey wouldn't like this, but I figured me and By could talk her into coming and not snitching.

Joey sad, "Uh-uh, Kenny, you heard Grandma Sands tell about that little boy getting lost in the water. What was that thing called that she said got him?"

Daddy Cool said, "DIdn't you hear what she said, Joey?' She said he got caught by the Wool Pooh.

"Is that a fish?" Joey asked.

"Uh-uh. You know who Winnine-the-Pooh is, don't you?"

Me and Joey both nodded.

"Well, the Wool Pooh is Winnie's evil twin brother. Don't no one ever write about him 'cause they don't want to scare y'all kids. What he does is hide underwater and snatch stupid kids down with him."


 * 2) Why is Byron coming up with this ridiculous story about a Wool Pooh?**

By figured that dumb story was enough to scare me off and he started walking in the direction of the public swimming. "If Kenny wants to take his stupid little behind down there and get snatched, let him." By grabbed Joey's hand and started pulling her along with him, but she skidded her feet in the dirt.

"But Byron, what if the Wool Pooh comes down to where we're going? Can't he swim down there and get people too?"

"Naw, Joey, the Wool Pooh don't come on public beaches, he just grabs folks that are too stingy to let peons come on their land, like this Collier guy."

Who could understand Byron? Here was a chance for another fantastic adventure and he was going in the wrong direction. Something was wrong with him. If he was in Flint and you told him not to do something he'd go right out and do it, but now he was acting real dull and square. Maybe it was the heat, maybe just like it had sucked all the energy out of me it had sucked all the meanness and fun out of Byron.


 * 3) Why is Byron acting "dull and square" based off your inference, not what Kenny thinks?**

"What you gonna do, punk?" Byron shouted over his shoulder. Joey yelled, "Come on, Kenny! You know what Grandma Sands said."

I couldn't believe it. I really wanted to go see where some kid drowned and now By was chosing this time to listen to what a grownup told him.

"Awww, man, I'm going to Collier's landing."

Byron shrugged. "Have fun."

I shouted, "Whatr's wrong with you? When are you going to start acting like you normally do? What would Buphead say if he saw you acting like this?"

Byron flipped me double middle fingers and another finger sign I'd never seen before and said, "Just keep your stupid litte butt out of the water."


 * 4) Is Bryon really this trouble-seeking bad boy?**