Homer Price by Robert McCloskey

Author:Robert McCloskey
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-12-02T06:14:44+00:00

Just then Uncle Telly walked up and agreed, "It's awful pretty, being all colors of the rainbow, but it ain't wound tight. It's so soft you can poke your fist right into it."

"Yes, but yarn stretches purty much," said the sheriff unhappily.

The day the fair opened the grandstand was crowded and people stood half-way around the track when the contestants and their assistants started unrolling their string. Miss Terwilliger's new pink dress and the sheriff's and Uncle Telly's new suits caused much favorable comment from the ladies present. The men were more interested in the string, but as Homer's mother said, "They can hardly tell one dress or suit from another." Miss Terwilliger and the sheriff and Uncle Telly were hot and tired after the first two times around the track and so were their assistants. So the judge had some of the regular county fair employees roll the balls while the contestants rode around the track alongside in the sheriff's car.

After the first afternoon's unrolling, Miss Terwilliger's ball measured 5'9"; the sheriff's measured 5'8 3/4"; Uncle Telly's 5'8". Uncle Telly and the sheriff were very uneasy. At the end of the second day the sheriff's and Miss Terwilliger's 5'; Uncle Telly's 4' 11 15/16". Uncle Telly felt a little better, and so did the sheriff.

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