Maniac Magee met Russell and Piper while he was camping out in a historical recreation log cabin at the Valley Forge open air museum. First, he overheard their voices bickering in the night. The next day, he saw them and realized that they were "two little boys," who were brothers. They told him that they were on their way to Mexico, but they soon grew suspicious of Maniac. They thought that he was an undercover police officer. They had stolen a big bag of sweet treats, and they were worried that they would get into trouble with the law.
Russell and Piper often got into physical fights, but they did not last for long. Sometimes afterward they would "[laugh] as long as they had fought." Piper had a loud, screeching voice. Russell was missing a tooth.
Maniac soon found out that Russell and Piper were the younger brothers of local baseball star, Big John McNab.
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