Dog Whisperer by Nicholas Edwards

Author:Nicholas Edwards
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Square Fish

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Emily was eager to go back to the bridge, and see if the ghost really was Mr. Griswold, but she didn’t get a chance the next day because they already had plans. First, they raked some leaves in the yard, and then they drove over to the college to go to a home football game. They had season tickets, and never missed a game. Football wasn’t Emily’s favorite sport, but she liked going, because the people in the stands got so excited, and shouted and clapped and cheered every play, and it was fun to be part of that.

Over the years, she had actually learned a lot about the game, and could now usually predict when the team was going to pass or run, and could sometimes even recognize different kinds of defenses.

They also regularly went to college basketball, hockey, softball, and baseball games at Bowdoin. Her mother liked—and had played—just about every single sport that existed, so she would go watch anything, including boring stuff like golf. Emily’s father played tennis once in a while, but when it came to sports, he mostly preferred just being a spectator.

Emily leaned in the direction of being a spectator herself, although a pretty active one, because she enjoyed sketching whatever kind of game they were attending. It was really hard to capture movement on the page, and she liked the challenge of trying to draw someone leaping for a ball, or diving for a goal, or whatever else might be happening.

She had tried playing lots of sports, because her parents wanted her to be “exposed to new things.” She didn’t mind soccer, since it was an excuse to run around like an idiot for an hour, but the game itself didn’t do much for her. She had been taking swimming lessons at the college for years, with other faculty kids, and she wasn’t a star, but she was good enough to have been promoted to Level 5 as a swimmer, and was now working on her Level 6 skills. She didn’t think she ever wanted to be a lifeguard or anything, but it would be nice to be qualified to do that.

Tennis was fun, but she wasn’t very good. She didn’t mind playing catch in the backyard, but other than that, baseball and softball were more fun to watch, in her opinion. Especially, of course, the Red Sox.

Bowdoin won the football game, so everyone left in a good mood. A couple of professors her parents knew were having a post-game cookout, so they went to that. Emily always tried not to make a big deal of being a vegetarian, since it sometimes made people uncomfortable, but Dr. Bougainer made her a thick grilled cheese and tomato sandwich—without even being asked—which Emily thought was really nice. She had two ears of corn and some salad, too.

Then, on Sunday, they went to church in the morning. They had to get there more than an hour early because Emily had her religious education class at ten, and her mother had choir practice.

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