- They arrive at the Breen place. The house is a pretty shabby sight, but inside the barn, Tom can see that it's a well-made structure and, more importantly, good-quality timber.
- Tom begins to imagine what he might do with such a barn back at his home.
- Sure, he knows it's farfetched for a boy his age, with no money and no resources, to even think about taking the barn apart, moving it seven miles to his home, and putting it back up. But that's the seed of the American Dream.
- An old woman calls out to Tom from the porch. Uh oh. She's pointing a gun at him and demanding to know what he's doing in her barn.