Cam Jansen and the Chocolate Fudge Mystery

ISBN: 9780590129022

出版社: Scholastic

出版年: 2005

页数: 58

定价: 30.00

装帧: 简装

内容简介

1
The Gypsy Boy
Old Berthie was the one that told Jip. % lunatic??? boy???\"
she said leaning so close Jip could count the hairs in her
nostrils. \"A raving lunatic.\" She sniffed. \"~Ve re all of us
poor and there be some???\" she rolled her eyes toward Old
George and Sheldon Morse??? \"who is simple. But we re
harndess??? ain t we??? boy? ~.%at do they mean bringing a
lunatic amongst poor God-fearing h)lk who done no
harm nor had no luck in this cnml world?\"
.lip nodded solemnly??? tte never arg~aed with Berthie.
Once he dared question her when she said Ethan Mien
had been a fool. After all??? Ethan Allen :rod his Green
Mountain Boys were the only genuine Vermont heroes
Jip had ever heard tell of.
\"Ethan Allen was a hero???\" he d said.
She slapped him across the cheek so hard it stung. He
wouldn t have credited that old wrinkled hand with such
strength. \"I said??? fbol??? boy. Don t go contradicting your
elders!\"
tie didn t again. Besides??? why zvere they bringing a
hmatic to the poor farm?
\"Money???\" Berthie said. \"It d cost the town too dear to
send him to the asylum.\"
The ()verseer of the Poor had appeared several clays
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