Soup / Robert Newton Peck 96 p.

Robert Newton Peck tells his own story and that of his best friend and companion in adventure, Luther Wesley Vinson. Soup and Rob find fun stuff to do that get them into trouble. Like the time they threw apples from sticks, each trying out do the other as boys are apt to do, with Rob's flying into the inevitable window. How Soup talked Rob into rolling down a hill in a rotten apple barrel is any one's guess. Then there is their joint venture where they make their own pipes to smoke 'corn silk' tobacco. Add in a cast of characters and you see just how Robert Newton Peck grew up during the depression in Vermont. Be sure to read the dedication page found at the end of the book: "To the Reverend Luther Vinson, a shepherd of his flock, from his first sheep. Robert Newton Peck."