- Peekay has a hard time convincing his mother (and the Lord) to let him do the letter-writing on Sundays. However, his grandpa reminds her that Peekay could bring in Christian tracts from her church, which would get her some major points with the Pastor and God. She agrees, and Peekay starts putting a tobacco leaf in the tracts, which makes the letter-writing service even more popular.
- When prisoners don't have anyone to write to, but want their tobacco, they write a letter to King George of England, calling him King Georgie, which then becomes the nickname for Peekay's tracts.
- Lieutenant Borman starts to suffer from piles, or hemorrhoids, and Peekay is sure that it is the hatred of the people that has put a curse on him, causing him to suffer as he made Geel Piet suffer.
- Doc and Peekay make up for lost time hiking and taking pictures of cacti, and Mrs. Boxall and Miss Bornstein also join in preparing Peekay for high school. He takes an exam to get a scholarship for the Prince of Wales School, and gets the highest marks in the school's history.
- Peekay's only concern is whether the school has boxing, and when he finds out that they do, he is convinced to go. When the school's clothing list comes, though, the family enters into crisis mode. Peekay's mother doesn't have enough to buy all the special clothes required for the fancy school, so she, Peekay, and Marie pray to the Lord, shopping list-style, and sure enough the town chips in to send their favorite son off in style.
- Miss Bornstein's father used to be a tailor and makes him most of the clothes he needs, while church ladies knit sweaters for him.
- One night at church, Marie and Peekay's mother tell of a man who died of cancer of the rectum, and who was saved by their evangelizing after he had a massive rectal hemorrhage. Lieutenant Borman died knowing exactly what Geel Piet had suffered at his hands.