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Show 15 going to buy me a twenty-two, then you'll be making chicken sounds," said Funly. "Well I'll get a shot gun," said Georgie. "I'll get an atom bomb," said Jarvis. That's where the discussion always ended up x anyway, so he decided to get it there quick* Funly watched Jarvis and Georgie running the asphalt through their hands like silver coins. "What are you playing in tar for?" he said. "It's not tar," said Georgie. "Yeah," said Jarvis. "Not tar." "Well what x is it then?" "It's valuable," said Georgie. "So just keep away." Funly put his hands in his khaki pants and walked back and forth for awhile deciding how much he wanted to be smart and how much he wanted to avoid having the crap knocked out of him. His tenth birthday was coming up xxx fast and that would leave him only two years away from getting his twenty-two. He'd been picturing that rifle all morning and had already sacked the neighborhood several times in his imagination, taking particular pleasure in lining XJB Mrs. Gorky and Mrs. Loop up against the wall and having xxsxxxx£xxx£ Georgie and Jarvis plead with him for the lives of their mothers. Besides, he'd snorfed out several xxx indications that he might get a b-b gun on his next xx birthday just for being ten. He sauntered back over to the valuable substance convention. "I think it's just gonna have to be gold," Georgie was saying. "I can't think of anything else." "I think it's got to be some kind of solid oil something," said Jarvis. He was a little smarter than Georgie and bigger too, though Georgie was meaner and trickier. "Some kind of valuable oil something," Jarvis was mumbling. "That stuff's not xxi worth nothin," said Funly. Georgie and Jarvis stopped talking for a second and looked up at £ Funly out the sides of their eyes, then they went back to their discussion.like Funly hadn't said a word. Funly Funster knew he had them on the run. "You guys are dumb. That stuff's not worth shit. They make streets and parking lots out of it. It's the cheapest stuff in the world." Funly thought he'd been prepared to run, but he didn't even get tu^e^^rw^H4-U»fore Jarvis had his arms and Georgie his legs |