The Mount Rushmore Calamity by Jeff Brown

Author:Jeff Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2009-08-17T16:00:00+00:00

Calamity Jasper stood up and turned her head so her headlamp illuminated the small space. “Really?” she asked. “How?”

Stanley looked around. He saw the problem: He could get through the gap in the rocks, but she couldn’t. “I’m sorry,” he said, embarrassed. “I’ll come up with something.”

“Just go get help,” Calamity muttered. Then she sat back down on the rock and turned her back to him.

Stanley worked himself back through to the other side.

“My flatness didn’t help,” he admitted to Arthur.

“Well, my strength didn’t help either,” Arthur said. “Too bad we couldn’t combine the two—hey!” He jumped up. “We’ve been studying machines at school! Do you know how a lever works?”

Stanley understood Arthur’s clever idea at once. The boys rolled a small rock beside the larger one, and Stanley lay himself over it. He worked his feet under the large rock and made himself stiff as a board. “Use your strength to press down on my shoulders,” he directed his brother.

Arthur did. With a deep creak, the boulder rolled aside!

Calamity Jasper crawled through the gap. She narrowed her eyes and scowled at the two boys as she stormed past them to the mine entrance.

The boys followed, and after the three children rubbed their eyes in the bright afternoon sunshine, they stared in disbelief: Gold Rush was gone!

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