if we catch up to him , he might like us if we tell him some stuff about how we play in the arroyos and stuff and he might think we are really great kids with a lot of potential and spunk and he might just decide to give us his fortune in the future , secretly , kinda , said meredith , revealing by this comment her own treasured fantasy about riches , a wish-fulfillment daydream we had picked up from my mother who acting as a librarian in a small town on the salamonie river and had read and reread , and suggested to the unwary reader , rather foxy and smudged copies of great expectations and daddy long legs .