Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes

Author:Eleanor Estes [Estes, Eleanor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Ages 9 and up
ISBN: 9780152024994
Google: fWYBQORqN4cC
Amazon: 0152025057
Publisher: Odyssey/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1951-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

They recalled a story they had heard of a man over here, somewhere on Second Avenue, who had had his nose bitten off by a dog. Fortunately a bystander picked the nose up and stuck it back on this man's face where it belonged and, so the story went, held it there until the doctor arrived. The doctor sewed the nose back on, and it was only a little crooked. From then on the man was known as Bit-nose Ned.

Now Jerry and Rachel wondered. Supposing it was Wally Bullwinkle's dog that had done this. If so, it was kind of him, after all, to warn them. They'd better take his advice and stay away from this place. Their noses were so little, if they were bitten off, it would not be an easy matter to sew them back on.

Then Jerry said, "Pooh! I don't believe Wally has a dog at all. I never heard him say anything about having a dog. He's always boasting about something, that's all."

Rachel was silent. She was thinking that, if she was not careful, she might turn into a Wally Bullwinkle. Twice yesterday, twice on one day, she had said something that was not true. She wondered if the disappearance of Ginger Pye was punishment for saying these two things that were not true.

The first wrong thing she had said yesterday morning to Mrs. Carruthers when she was running home from school across the lot. Mrs. Carruthers had said to her, "Rachel," she had said. "I suppose you are having turkey for dinner tomorrow."

Rachel had said, "No. We aren't having turkey. But we are having three chickens."

Actually, she had been told they were going to have two chickens, which seemed tremendous enough, but in comparison to a turkey, they were probably nothing in Mrs. Carruthers' estimation, so she had tacked one on. As it happened they had had three chickens after all, so the statement was not really untrue. Gramma said the two chickens she had chosen were not large enough and so she had brought another, as a surprise. However, at the time Rachel told Mrs. Carruthers about having three, she thought they were having two. Therefore it was a wrong thing to say, especially as she had been ashamed they were having chicken and not turkey. Yet, that was nothing to be ashamed of.

The other wrong thing she had said, she had said yesterday afternoon to Mrs. Stokes, the lady who had given the big ice cream party. It happened that Rachel and a girl named Muriel Jenks, who had curls and a coat trimmed with white bunny fur, were dancing on Rachel's front lawn and turning handsprings. Muriel Jenks went to Miss Chichester's dancing school and Muriel said, "Why don't you take dancing lessons?" And Rachel said, "I do. I go far far away and I take lessons from this teacher that is far far away." And all the while, of course, she didn't take dancing lessons at all.

This was not so

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