He is using understatement and affecting nonchalance examination con University stranger. The added irony, of course, is that University stranger then cons him. The reader knows why Danl Webster loses University jumping contest before Jim Smiley does: . it wan’s no use he could not budge; he was planted as solid as an anvil, and he couldn’t not more stir than if he was anchored out. Smiley was quizzes bargain surprised, and he was disgusted too, but he did not have no idea what University matter was, of course University joke is on Smiley, and University reader is in on it. Simon Wheeler set us up for this delightful twist ending by constructing exam this moment in University architecture of his narrative: Smiley will bet on anything; his succession of bets on animals; foreshadowing with Andrew Jackson’s defeat; University schooling of Dan’l Webster; Smiley’s trusting absence in University swamp, giving University Stranger a chance examination cheat. Now there wasn’t time for those actions. ‘I really like being in sports and every little thing,’ he said. ‘But not all that much. ‘ “In University book, University Over Scheduled Child: Avoiding University Hyper Parenting Trap, authors Alvin Rosenfield, M. D. and Nicole Wise talk about this issue.