The Case of the Dirty Bird by Gary Paulsen

Author:Gary Paulsen [Paulsen, Gary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-80369-6
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2011-11-15T16:00:00+00:00

Amos hadn’t gone very far when he heard somebody yelling and looked to see Dunc coming back up the street. Two men were chasing him, but they turned away when they saw they couldn’t catch up to him.

“What’s their problem?” Amos asked when Dunc stopped next to him.

“Oh—they wanted to borrow my bike. Forever.” He caught his breath. “I saw it—it’s definitely a hammer. I could see the outline. I don’t see how I missed it the first few times. I think I could see some lettering, too, but it might have been my imagination. We’ll have to come back later—”

“Don’t say it,” Amos said.

“—after dark.”

“That’s what I meant. Don’t say that. I mean, if we come back here after dark, nobody will ever hear from us again. This is the waterfront, Dunc—not your yard. There are people down here who will sell us for medical experiments.”

“Well,” Dunc said, “you can’t expect us to come here in the daylight again, can you? I mean, those guys were throwing bottles at me.”

Amos started pushing his bike home, and Dunc pushed his alongside.

“That’s hard logic to beat,” Amos said. “How about if we don’t come down here at all?”

“You don’t mean that.”

“I don’t?”

“No. If you didn’t want to come down here, you wouldn’t have told me about the hammer, would you?”

Amos started to say something. Then he realized Dunc was right.

“All right. You win.”

“No,” Dunc said. “We win. We both win. You’ll see, there’ll be treasure. I just know it.”

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