As a summer job, a young boy works atop boxcars keeping oranges refrigerated. To do this, he must drop ice down chutes while the train is moving. It's difficult work, but Chicken and Uncle Alton are thankfully there to help.

When the boy and Chicken push one ice block down, it enters without sliding down a chute. Uncle Alton instructs the boy to get inside the carriage to pull the ice out so it doesn't damage the oranges anymore than it already has. When the boy gets down there, he sees a man staring at him. A Mexican man. The boy says nothing.

Years later, when he'd retell this story to his kids, the story would be completely different. In the story, he is watering cattle cars, and he is jumping from car to car, and the Mexican steers are going wild.