David spends a good deal of time flying a kite with Mr. d**k. David notices that Mr. d**k's mind becomes lucid when flying a kite. Otherwise, when he's busy writing his memorial, Mr. d**k invariably aborts it on account of his troubled mind which is obsessed with the beheading of King Charles the First. Subsequently, much of the kite is made up of Mr. d**k's discarded papers upon which an account of the beheading of King Charles the First is legible.
One day, Miss Betsey asks David whether he'd like to attend school in Canterbury. When David expresses his eagerness to attend, Miss Betsey informs David that they will see to the business the first thing tomorrow. Alas, Mr. d**k objects to David's departure. But when told that he may visit David on Wednesdays and that David will visit Mr. d*
