The Wild Kid by Harry Mazer

Author:Harry Mazer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

17

“You’re going to help me today,” Kevin said. “You ready to work?”

“I’m a good worker,” Sammy said. “What’s the plan?”

“The plan is to make more room inside. We’re going to knock down this wall.” He touched the wall with the window in it. It was part of a big wooden packing case, disguised with branches on the outside. They pulled away the brush first, then slid the packing case out and propped it with rocks.

The inside was open now, on the side and on the top. Sammy looked up at the sky. “If it rains, we’ll get wet.” There were clouds in the sky. “Uh-oh, better not rain right now.”

“Come on,” Kevin said. “Stop talking.”

Kevin cut down six skinny trees with a little saw, and they carried them back to the camp. One at a time, they set them between the packing case and the rocks. Kevin spread plastic over them and covered everything with a crisscross of branches, twigs, and leaves.

Sammy was getting tired and hungry, but Kevin wouldn’t stop. He kept running from inside to out, looking at everything from different angles. “We have to camouflage it better,” he said.

“I know what that means,” Sammy said. “It’s like army stuff. I have a camouflage suit.”

“Cool,” Kevin said.

Kevin moved rocks around to make the wall look more natural. When they got done piling brush against it, it looked like bushes growing next to rocks.

Inside, the room was big now. In back was the cave, and in front was a regular room. They arranged Kevin’s mattress and Sammy’s blanket next to each other. “Cool,” Sammy said.

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