The Professor gives Hal a telescope for his birthday and then is led to wonder how he can get more interested in the things Burch is interested in, when he's naturally drawn to scientific Hal. Then it's Butch who spots a new comet through Hal's telescope. Suddenly it's Butch who's the famous scientist, even if he would rather play baseball - and then a genuine astronomer who has been working out the comet's appearance also claims the discovery. The problem is he is a really nice man. He is a tenth of a second behind Butch, and Butch begins to regret that the real scientist, who worked for years and years to find the comet, is the one who loses out. A story about a boy's sense of fairness.