The Celery Stalks at Midnight by James Howe

Author:James Howe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 2011-09-10T04:00:00+00:00

An Unexpected fourney

OH, WHY couldn’t you be a real snowball and melt? I thought as I raced down the street. The cat hanging from my jaws showed no signs of melting; rather, with his hair fluffed out in all directions, he seemed to be growing bigger with each passing second. Chester, I thought, I’m going to get you for this one, I really am. If I live. I looked around me, trying to figure out what to do next.

Chester and Howie came up on my right.

“Toss him!” Chester cried out as he moved into earshot.

“I’ll take him, Uncle Harold,” Howie barked excitedly. “I’m not afraid of cats.”

That’s because you haven’t lived long enough, kid, I thought.

Behind me, Snowball’s owner, swinging a broom, was fast approaching. I looked to my right. Wide open street. To my left. Wide open lawn. No safe place to ditch the bristling cat.

But just then, I noticed a mailman coming up the sidewalk in my direction. Behind him he pulled a cart. As I ran past, I flung Snowball into the mail-cart and hightailed it as fast as I could to the nearest parked car. Under I went. Chester and Howie were already cowering behind one of the wheels.

We looked out to see envelopes and magazines and packages flying helter-skelter out of the cart and landing all over the sidewalk. Flashes of white fur passed into view from time to time as Snowball tried frantically to escape. Not knowing what else to do, the mailman stood by helplessly, his eyes wide in amazement, his mouth hanging open.

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