Gully's Travels by Tor Seidler

Author:Tor Seidler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2013-08-20T04:00:00+00:00

Carlos, several paces ahead, noticed none of the antics behind him. On the next street corner, he picked up his Daily News, and on the one after that, he ducked down into the subway. The platform was a steam bath, but the train pulled in before his uniform started getting sweat blotches, and not only was the car air-conditioned, he actually nabbed a seat. He opened to the sports pages and was soon so wrapped up in the box scores of yesterday’s ball games that he totally missed the commotion farther down the car.

“Is he with you, lady?” a stout man in coveralls asked.

“Certainly not,” said the lady in question, who had on owlish glasses. “Aren’t they supposed to be on a leash?”

“Maybe he’s going to see his vet in the city,” cracked a teenager with cornrows.

“Look at him, he’s scared to death,” said a kind-looking woman in a nurse’s uniform. “He’s shaking like a leaf.”

“Bet it’s a she,” said Cornrows. “Check out the girly collar.”

“Maybe somebody should take her to the ASPCA,” said the woman in the big glasses.

“What is she, anyway?” mused the nurse.

“A shih tzu?”

“One of them mixes,” the man in coveralls said. “Part terrier, part spaniel, something like that.” Fortunately for Gulliver, he didn’t catch any of this. Even if he’d had more of an ear for human speech, he wouldn’t have been able to hear what they were saying over the clacking of the train wheels and the booming of his heart. He’d been terrified on his first flight to Paris, and on his first day with the Montoyas, but nothing like this. Each time the train sped up, the vibrating under his paws made him wish he was back on the trampoline. When the train slowed to a stop, the screech of the brakes made him wish he was with Juanita. And whether the train was moving or stationary, there was such a racket that any reassuring words from J.C. were totally drowned out.

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