“I just came to get away from my family.” Charles Wallace nodded. “What kind of family?” “They all have runny noses. I’m third from the top of eleven kids. I’m a sport.” At that Charles Wallace grinned widely. “So ’m I.” “I don’t mean like in baseball,” Calvin said. “Neither do I.” “I mean like in biology,” Calvin said suspiciously. “A change in gene,” Charles Wallace quoted, “resulting in the appearance in the offspring of a character which is not present in the parents but which is potentially transmissible to its offspring.”
