One Smart Sheep by Gary D. Schmidt

Author:Gary D. Schmidt
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780358628941
Publisher: HMH Books
Published: 2021-10-26T00:00:00+00:00

It wasn’t long before Wilson gave up trying to be brave. He huddled in a corner and baaed his frantic baa.

But he was alone in the back of the piano delivery truck.

And he was hearing things he had never heard on Atwood Hill: the rumble of trucks hauling heavy loads, a jackhammer pounding. And they were louder than any of Jeremiah Jefferson’s machines.

In a little while, the delivery truck slowed down and Wilson heard someone calling “Hot dogs! Hot dogs! Two for a buck!” And he heard a calliope singing breathy music. He had never heard a calliope before. He put his ears up like a Border collie.

Then the delivery truck slowed down even more, and Wilson heard the high, light bells of a church steeple chiming, and the slow, deep bells of a clock tower tolling. He closed his eyes. Wilson had never heard anything so beautiful as these chimes and bells.

As they got close to Sullivan Street, the delivery truck stopped often before it made a turn. Wilson heard cars honking and brakes squealing and sirens passing by.

Wilson stood. He was afraid. He wondered what the sounds he heard meant.

Then Wilson thought about what Tippy would do if she were in the back of the piano delivery truck.

Tippy would not be afraid.

Tippy would wait by the back doors, and when they opened, Tippy would leap out and look for where the sounds came from.

Wilson knew that was exactly what Tippy would do.

So when the truck stopped, Wilson moved to the back doors. He put his ears up and crouched down low the way Border collies do.

He waited for the doors to open.

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