Silver Rain by Lois Peterson

Author:Lois Peterson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: book, JUV000000
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2010-10-03T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

“I’m ready when you are, pardner,” said Scoop as he cut himself another slice of bread without asking Elsie if she wanted one.

“We can’t go today,” Elsie told him. “Your mom won’t let you, with that cold. Anyway, it’s too late. And tomorrow Nan’s going over to Mrs. Tipson’s to change the shelf paper in her pantry. If I go and help, maybe I can earn ten cents.”

“Thad’ll ged you into the barathon. How ’bout I budder up the Noises and baybe they’ll gibe be a dibe. Or the boarders, if I polish their shoes.” Scoop’s nose was streaming again. He swiped one arm across his face and sniffed loudly.

Elsie brushed the crumbs off the table and screwed the lid back on the jam jar. “Let’s go on Sunday. But I have to do my homework first,” she said. “Did you do yours?”

In Nature class, Miss Beeston had drawn a diagram of a leaf on the blackboard, marking the ribs and veins, the stipules and blades. At home, they were supposed to find a leaf and diagram it the way she’d done on the board. When Scoop said that he would rather draw a dead body as if he could see straight through it, Miss Beeston had told him to follow the instructions to the letter for once.

“I haben’t done by hobework. I bin sick, you know,” he told Elsie again.

She rolled her eyes. Her leaf was pressed between the pages of Nan’s Bible.

She pushed her chair back and brushed the crumbs from her pants. If Dog Bob were here, he’d have cleaned up the floor after their snack. “I gotta go now,” she told Scoop. “Do your homework so we can check out that dance marathon. Hear?”

“Okay, pardner.”

He was still sitting at the table as Elsie opened the door to leave.

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