Little Boy Page #3

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Hashimoto.

Put these on my tab.

Father, with all due respect...

Now, Gilliam.

These, too.

Of course, Father.

I'm getting sick and

tired of hearing again

and again and again

about Pearl Harbor,

and about how my son gave

his life for his country.

Because he didn't.

Those Japs took his life.

And they did it the most

cowardly way you can imagine.

We need to do something

about that Jap.

If I could,

I would smash every Jap with my bare hands.

That's the rat's dump.

You want to smash him

with your bare hands?

Here you go.

Have at him.

Go on.

There he is!

Take that, dirty Jap!

Maybe this'll let him know

that slants ain't welcome...

I finally understood why they don't let

flat feet into the Army.

Five groups of 10

"Hail Marys" and five "Our Fathers."

In Latin.

Sancta Maria, mater Dei,

ora pro nobis peccatoribus,

nunc, et in hora mortis nostrae.

Amen.

Now you.

In Latin?

Thank God nothing

happened to Hashimoto.

I've finished.

Very good.

Something else?

The seed itself doesn't do anything.

What I said is,

"If you have faith,

the invisible power..."

Like Ben Eagle's powers?

Ben Eagle?

Well, no, that's just fantasy.

How can you say that?

I met Ben Eagle and he showed

me how to move a bottle.

He can also move a mountain

just like you said.

No, no, no.

That's not the same thing.

That's not faith.

Let's see.

If you have faith,

"fides" in Latin...

Father Crispin,

I'll take it from here.

I understand.

Take a seat.

Why don't you show me

how you moved the bottle?

You want to see?

Yes, I do.

I guess that was stupid of me.

Why don't you try again?

Again.

There, it moved.

No, you moved it.

Yes, because you

moved me to move it.

See, I moved it because you wanted

the bottle to move so much.

And that, you could say,

is how faith works.

At least some of the time.

And this is as much as I

need to move a mountain?

Well, in theory, yes.

But it's up to him.

He's the mover.

How could I get bigger faith?

The list, the ancient list.

For centuries,

people believe that if you do this list,

it'll make your faith powerful.

This is what you have to do.

"Feed the hungry,

"shelter the homeless,

"visit those in prison,

"clothe the naked."

Naked?

How is that supposed to...

"Visit the sick,

"bury the dead."

Just one more thing.

In order to make

this list work for you,

I'm gonna add

one essential item.

"Befriend Hashimoto"?

Are you crazy?

It's your choice, Pepper.

What does that Jap

have to do with anything?

Everything.

Your faith won't work

if you have

even the slightest

bit of hatred in you.

Fine.

I'll do it, if that's what it

takes to bring my dad back.

Come again?

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