Charlie Bumpers vs. His Big Blabby Mouth by Bill Harley

Author:Bill Harley [Harley, Bill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781682630235
Publisher: Peachtree Publishers
Published: 2017-03-22T04:00:00+00:00

Dad was waiting for us in the kitchen when the Squid and I got home. “Want to walk Ginger together?” he asked me.

“Sure,” I said. Sometimes Dad walked Ginger around the block when I couldn’t do it, but we hardly ever did it together.

He stuffed a plastic bag in his pocket for you-know-what, or as my dad says, “the call of nature.”

Or as I say, “poop.”

“Are you picking it up?” I asked.

“No. I’ll carry the bag, but you have to pick it up. You’re closer to the ground than I am.”

“That’s not fair,” I said.

“Life’s not fair,” he said, smiling.

Ginger led us on our usual route around the block. We stopped for a minute and said hi to Mrs. Lapidus while her dog Lovey-Doodle (That’s his name. I’m not making it up.) yapped at Ginger.

Ginger strained to get at the little mutt, but I pulled on her leash until she gave up and started walking again.

Dad asked me about school and I told him about my job as Mrs. Burke’s Master Messenger. I explained how I was like Buck Meson except I wasn’t supposed to run.

“Do you ever run when no one’s looking?” he asked.

“Sometimes,” I said.

“I figured,” he said. “I know you.”

At the cat lady’s house we saw her two cats Alice and Gertrude looking out of the front window. Ginger tried to lunge at them, but I jerked her back onto the sidewalk. Just as we made the turn for home, we saw Mr. Gritzbach out in his front yard smoking a cigar. He’s kind of a grumpy old guy, and he’s always worried about Ginger pooping in his yard.

“Hi, Raymond,” Dad said to him.

“Hello, Jim.” He scrunched up his bushy gray eyebrows like he was trying to figure something out. “You taking the day off?”

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