i took several men with me to a babbling stream that ran across two farms and it served as an excellent trench , it 's walls just high enough to see over . but the more i thought about it , the more i wondered if there was n't something to it . `` i can- '' `` do as you 're told . '' i looked down at the three other benjamin 's poking through the spaces between the fingers of my right hand . this way , you dont have a big empty space when you show it . 