The Golden Ghost by Marion Dane Bauer

Author:Marion Dane Bauer [Bauer, Marion Dane; Ferguson, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-375-89818-1
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2011-03-22T04:00:00+00:00

Delsie held out a hand in invitation. The dog hesitated. She stretched her neck to sniff Delsie’s hand. But then she turned her head away … sadly, Delsie thought.

The dog stayed close behind the man.

Was she real? How could she be? She was a dog that seemed to be made up of a million tiny lights.

Or was she a ghost?

Who ever heard of a ghost dog?

Who ever heard of a ghost anything outside of stories?

But there she was, walking along in a sparkling dog shape.

Delsie stared after the magnificent creature. Her great tail waved slowly from side to side. She stayed so close behind the old man, she might have been leashed. But there was no leash.

Anyway, no laws said ghost dogs had to be leashed. Did they?

Delsie didn’t know how she felt about the idea of a ghost dog. She didn’t know how she should feel. She had never believed in ghosts particularly. No more than any other kid when stories were being told around a campfire on a dark night.

But it wasn’t even night yet. The sun still rode halfway down the sky.

It was early evening, a perfectly ordinary evening in Milton. Except for a ghost dog walking down Main Street.

If Todd saw the dog, if only Todd saw the dog, he wouldn’t be able to complain about her imagination ever again. Not in a million, trillion years!

Delsie drew in her breath. Then she turned her bike around and headed for Todd’s house, passing the old man and the golden dog once more. Todd’s house lay about two blocks ahead. If she hurried, she could get him outside in time to see the ghost dog.

She dropped her bike in front of Todd’s house and took the steps to the porch in a single bound. She knocked and rang the doorbell at the same time.

Bug responded with a flurry of barks.

Then when Todd opened the door, Bug flew through it. Delsie had prepared herself for the onslaught. Bug always threw himself at her, scrabbling at her legs as though he meant to climb her. But this time he had other ideas. He barreled right past. He flung himself off the porch and across the front yard, yapping.

Bug ran at the man and the golden dog, making a noise that would have done credit to ten little dogs.

“Bug!” Todd yelled after him. He turned to Delsie and added in the same cross voice, “What’s wrong with him, anyway?” He said it as though she had caused Bug to lose his little doggy mind.

“Bug!” he yelled again. And he leapt off the front porch, too.

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