Excuses, Excuses....

The cartoon on page 128 made me laugh on the excuses that Arnold tells people if they ask him is he's poor. The first two responses he does not say at all until Penelope asks if he's poor, but the other three I can imagine him telling them to people a multiple of times. Arnold is ashamed that he is poor and does not want all the white kids to notice. Even though white people think Indians get money from the government and are rich, but that is not the situation with Arnold and his family. Arnold makes a lot of excuses to people and I find it funny on all the lies he makes up, but in the end people will end up knowing the truth.