Sam the Man & the Chicken Plan by Frances O’Roark Dowell

Author:Frances O’Roark Dowell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Probably not, he thought.

Besides, he would feel silly singing to a chicken.

“Take your time, Helga,” he said, even though he was curious to see what a blue egg would look like.

He wondered how much money people would pay to see a blue egg?

He wondered how much money people would pay to eat a blue egg?

He leaned back in his chair and smiled.

Sam the Man had just come up with a how-to-pay-back-his-dad plan.

A Change in Plans

A week had gone by, and Helga still hadn’t laid an egg.

“Be patient,” Mrs. Kerner told Sam. “A girl needs time to settle in.”

Normally, Sam was a very patient person. But now he needed money to pay his dad, and twenty bucks was a lot of money.

On Friday night he knocked on Annabelle’s door. “Would you like to buy back your box?” he asked. “I’ve only used it a couple of times.”

“Sorry, Sam the Man, but I’ve got all the boxes I need,” Annabelle said.

“Could I take one of your lawn-mowing jobs?”

Annabelle shook her head. “You’re too small to mow the lawn. Maybe in three years.”

“I need twenty bucks,” Sam said. “And I need it before three years from now.”

“That’s a problem,” Annabelle said. “You should ask Mrs. Kerner for a job. You know a lot about chickens now.”

“I’m already working for Mrs. Kerner,” Sam said. “Just not for money.”

“Maybe we have another neighbor who needs help with something,” Annabelle said. “Everybody needs help from time to time.”

Sam went back to his room and sat on his bed. Who did he know who needed help?

He bet some of his neighbors needed help walking their dogs, and Sam liked dogs a lot. But all the dogs he knew on his street were bigger than he was. Ferguson, the Landrums’ bullmastiff, weighed over a hundred pounds. Sam imagined himself flying in the air as he held tight to the squirrel-chasing Ferguson’s leash.

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