Book 2: Chapter 8, Educating the Chick Summary

Papa starts trying to figure out the best ways to use Chick's telekinetic abilities in the show. He wants Chick to have his own act, but can't decide the best way to use Chick's talents. Instead, he has Chick learn to lift a wallet full of money out of Oly's pocket in a large crowd, take out all of the money and silently put the wallet back without Oly feeling a thing. Chick is three at the time. Papa and Chick learn to take ten to twenty thousand dollars from the crowd in a few hours, without anyone feeling or suspecting a thing. At the end of the night, however, the toll of this would show on Chick with his purple eyes and quiet, sleepy nature.

The other children start to resent Chick. Since he...