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Show 14 More Funsters Jarvis and Georgie Gorky sat in Georgie's backyard and counted the rocks that they pretended were gold. Not just any rocks were good for gold, they had to be angular and have little sparklies in them, they had to make one think of ore, and Jarvis and Georgie had long discussions about whether or not certain rocks evoked that particular quality. They had a whole special pile of second division rocks, tabled because they hadn't been able to come to a unanimous decision. That morning they'd fallen upon a big pile of hot asphalt in the parking lot of the abandonned Greek Orthodox Church with the funny cross on top behind Jarvis' house, and scooped up piles of it. Now they wracked their brains for some kind of valuable name for it because it certainly was a prize and they'd certainly had to steal it and it certainly had to be valuable. That's where Funly Funster found them. Funly was a short, fat, pudgy lipped, flat-topped piggy. Georgie Gorky v/as already making Piggy sound at the back of his throat. "When I'm twelve my Dad's |