Invasion of the Junkyard Hog by Bill Doyle

Author:Bill Doyle [Doyle, Bill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-385-37132-2
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2014-04-22T04:00:00+00:00

“Henry?” Keats whispered.

“Shhh, it’s coming,” Henry said.

There was a clanking sound. Keats held his breath. Suddenly he heard Henry shout, “A-ha!”

Henry was in trouble! Keats had to help! He lifted the bottom of the barrel too fast, and the whole thing toppled over. It rolled a couple times with him still inside.

Keats finally crawled out feetfirst. “I’m coming, Henry!”

Dizzy, he staggered in the wrong direction, and then stumbled into Henry. His cousin was grinning at him. “You were really on a roll there, Keats,” Henry said.

Something was bouncing around Henry’s feet. It took a second for Keats to focus.

It was Mr. Cigam’s toy dog!

“He survived the avalanche,” Henry said. “He must have been following us.”

The dog spun in small circles, yapping again and again.

Henry knelt down and held out his hand to the dog. “Hey, little guy, take it easy or you’ll blow a fuse,” he said. “What should we call him, Keats?”

Keats shrugged. He started to answer Henry when the toy dog leapt in the air and nipped at his fingers. Even with the little wrench still in its mouth, it hurt! So instead of “Fido,” what came out of Keats’s mouth was “Fi—Don’t!”

Henry grinned. “Fidon’t is a weird name, but I like it. What do you think, Fidon’t?” The dog spun in more circles. “I wonder if he can do any other tricks.”

“I don’t know if spinning is really a trick,” Keats said.

“This one might save us time.” Henry waved his index finger at the dog. “Find a shortcut, Fidon’t.”

The toy dog wiggled like he was shaking off robot fleas. When Henry repeated “Find a shortcut,” Fidon’t scratched his tin ear with a hind leg.

“Too bad,” Keats said. “Looks like we’ll just stay on the—”

“Yap!” Fidon’t interrupted. Then he took off, bouncing faster than ever on his spring legs.

The cousins watched him go for a second.

“Well, what are we waiting for?” Henry said. “Follow that toy!”

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