Arabel's Raven by Joan Aiken

Author:Joan Aiken
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

By the time they arrived at the Joneses' house, Number Six, Rainwater Crescent, Arabel was crying as well as shivering.

She couldn't seem to stop doing either of those things.

Mrs. Jones jumped out of the car and almost carried Arabel into the house.

"Your shopper!" Auntie Brenda shouted after them, getting the tartan bag out of the trunk.

"Stick it in the front hall, Brenda."

Brenda did. But she and Martha had exactly similar bags on wheels. They had bought them together at a grand clearance sale in Rumbury Bargain Basement Bazaar. Brenda put the wrong bag in the front hall. She left in her trunk the one that still contained Mortimer. As well as Mortimer, it held two pounds of ripe bananas; Mortimer, who loved bananas, was too busy eating them just then to complain about being shut inside the bag.

"We'd better get home quick," Auntie Brenda said. "We won't hang about in case Arabel's got something catching."

She had to make three stops on the way home, however, for Cindy wanted a Dairy Isobar, Lindy wanted a Hokey-Coke, and Mindy wanted a bag of Chewy Gooeys. All these had to be bought at different shops. By the time they reached their house Mortimer had finished the bananas and was ready to be unzipped from the shopping bag.

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