Ben says "Charge it!", or, Hoagie learns that AC/DC isn't just a band name

Now Hoagie was ready to rock and roll. He took the battery ingredients down to the lab to Red and Red made the battery, leaving it on a convenient shelf for Hoagie to steal.

But there was still the question of how to charge the battery. Since Red was unavailable ("Hey, dude, how do I get the jus, jus de to this bogus battery I ripped from you?" seemed unlikely even to Hoagie), it finally occurred to Hoagie to check with the only other eighteenth century scientist he knew – Ben Franklin.

Hoagie realized that the cerf-volant was the...

Hoagie's not looking for a hero, he's looking for a sandwich

I was convinced that Hoagie could help me solve the riddle of the colonial statue, and, in his own Neolithic way, he did. Eventually.

First, though, he had to wander over to the right of the outhouses and bother Benjamin Franklin, whom Hoagie so colorfully referred to as "the weird fat dude with the kite." Had Hoagie remember anything about history (other than "it was the class before lunch"), he would have realized that Franklin would be exactly the person who could connect him (figuratively speaking) to a source of electricity. Fortunately,...