Clover pointed to the post where all the boys had hung and draped their coats before running onto the field. "I looked all through them, but it's not there! And the wind wouldn't take it, would it?" Turning a statement into a question when directed at authority (for that's how Clover saw Bram, who seemed to be taking charge of the search) was something Clover had found to be highly effective when getting grown-ups to sympathize with his cause.