Beanie and Tough Enough by Ruth & Latrobe Carroll

Author:Ruth & Latrobe Carroll [Ruth and Latrobe Carroll]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc.
Published: 2015-08-23T04:00:00+00:00

“There’s just only one thing rattle-bangs thataway,” said Beanie. “Our old truck. Pa got it started after all.”

The chugs and rattles and wheezes sounded closer and closer. The truck’s old nose came poking round a bend. Tough Enough was running along beside it, barking and barking away.

“Look-a-there,” cried Annie Mae, “who all’s in the truck!”

Pa Tatum and Ma Tatum and Buck and Serena and Irby were all squeezed together on the front seat.

“Hey!” Pa Tatum called out to Annie Mae and Beanie. His whole face was a grin. “We been worried up about you. Bad flood. Tore things up and flattened ’em down.”

“I declare,” cried Ma Tatum, “you young uns look like drownded pups—bless you both!”

“Beanie,” said his father, “I got something to tell you. After the three of you put out to go, I got to thinkin’ about Tough Enough, how he’d be chained up soon and low in his mind and him maybe not the chicken killer a-tall. I figured I ought to keep a sharp lookout and try to catch the killer at his killin’.”

Ma Tatum put in, “And the more your pa figured and looked out sharp, the less work he done.”

Pa Tatum grinned. “I just stood around and tried to keep an eye on every last chicken. I had my gun handy. Pretty soon I heard a hen squawk, quick and surprised. Out o’ the corner o’ my eye I saw a big chicken hawk come half a-runnin’, half a-flyin’. He grabbed him a young banty hen. Before I could git a shot at him he was up and gone with her. But you just wait. I’ll git that killer yet.”

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