Karen's Cartwheel by Ann M. Martin

Author:Ann M. Martin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2016-08-25T04:00:00+00:00

Working for the Witch

“Just a second,” Nancy said. “I do not think we will get paid yet. The garage is lovely, but the driveway is not.”

Nancy was right. That huge pile of junk was sitting in the driveway. There was so much I did not know what to do with it all.

“How are you coming along, girls?” Daddy and Elizabeth were walking across the backyard to the garage.

“Fine,” Hannie said.

“We are finished,” I said.

“We think,” Nancy said.

I pointed to the stuff in the driveway. “We do not know what to do with that. The garbage people will not pick it up. Most of it is too big.”

“Well,” said Daddy, “I will drive it to the dump. Charlie and Sam can help me. You have done the hard part of the job. I guess you wouldn’t want to get paid now, would you? You probably — ”

“Oh, yes! We want to get paid!” I cried. “Right now.”

Daddy gave each of us three dollars. Nine more dollars!

“Hannie! Get the money!” I exclaimed. “Let’s count it again!”

Hannie flew across the street to her house. When she came back, she was carrying the sock. All of the money for the Doll Sisters was stuffed into it. Hannie was also carrying an old baby blanket. She spread the blanket on the ground. Then she emptied the sock onto it. Quarters and dimes and nickels and pennies and dollar bills fell out.

“Everyone add your three dollars,” I ordered. We dropped the bills onto the little pile of money. I counted the dollars, and my friends counted the change. Then we added everything together.

“Hey, we have earned almost twenty dollars!” cried Nancy.

“Twenty-one to go,” Hannie added. “Not bad.”

“Yeah. We just need a few more jobs,” I said. “Hannie? Do you think that your parents would like us to clean out their garage? If we cleaned out just two more really, really junky garages, we would have over thirty-seven dollars. We could probably get the Doll Sisters next weekend. I am sure Daddy would take us to the mall.”

Hannie frowned. “I don’t think my parents need us to clean the garage. Mommy did that a couple of months ago.”

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