This chapter is called “Apprentices.” Brent is in Tampa, on Florida’s Gulf coast. On a beach, he finds “a boarded-up ice cream shop” that is closed for the season. Here he makes a marching band whirligig, with a drummer, a trumpet player, a clarinetist, and a trombonist. Some kids are playing on the beach, and they become interested in what Brent is doing. They want to help, so he lets them do a little bit of work as his “apprentices.” The trick is to find an easy task that they can’t hurt anything by doing. Brent gives each one five nails, and they take turns hammering them into a piece of driftwood. Two days later, a few of them come back. Brent lets one boy drill holes into some plywood. They didn’t help the project much, but Brent allows them to think that they did.