Napoleon Charlie Ellis showed up just after Christmas.<br > When he landed here there was ahnost a foot of snow<br > on the ground. When he took off from Dominica， there<br > probably was not.<br > That was the first shortchanging he got. The second<br > was that they shoved him back down into seventh grade<br > when he was supposed to be in the eighth. Language prob-<br > lem was what they were talking about. What language did<br > you speak back home in Dominica， I asked him. English，<br > he told me， and told me in some pretty fine English， I must<br > say. So I didn t quite get why they did that. Anyway.<br > "They announced my name when I came in，" he said<br > to me. "So you have the advantage of me."<br > "Huh?"<br > i "What is your name?"<br > "It ain t half what your name is."<br > "Ain t?" Napoleon Charlie Ellis asked me， sounding<br >