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Show 78 But Grandma Funster A healthy, healthy, healthy, though now dead. She took care of Sx^x Grandpa Funster and all the little Funsters, she canned fruit, she cleaned house, she prepared meals. She chased me and Georgie Gorky around the block and over fences. She died. She sat up at her funeral. She was so energetic we could hear her bonking ax around in her coffin after they closed the lid. She just didn't want to get put away. It was Kxaxxx Grandpa Funster who was supposed to be dead and everybody knew it. Nonetheless, one evening after Graffina Funster wrestled fat SxaxaxxxRaxxiaxxxx almost dead Grandpa Funster out of his porch chair and brought him in for supper, then charged into the kitchen and ordered Funly to set the table, she hustled in to the dining room and got everybody seated, announced her famous beef stew, pounded back into the kitchen and didn't come out. Big Jimbo f"UW went into the kitchen after awhile to see what xxa was the silence and the hold up and found Grandma Funster in the corner upside down with her head in the stew. He said it was horrible taking aiii all those vegetables out of her face. It was certainly an unusual death. Too unusual. After the funeral Granpa Funster started waking up in the morning by himself, getting dressed, and going out on the front porch to sit. And in the evening, around supper time, he struggled to his feet, looking like he was leaning on something in the air, and trudged in to the supper table. He even put X himself to bed. "I g-g-guess SeXXxxx«BxxxxixaxxxMxxxxxKkBXXBxaxRaax Grandma b-babied him," Jimbo told Red. One night Irene Funster fell asleep while canning tomatos and when she woke up all the xaa work was done. "She was probably exhausted and forgot," Helen told Jimbo. "R-right," said Jimbo. "The s-s-strange thing is that Sxgxxxxx Grandpa says h-he's w-worried about A 'S-says she's 1-looking kind of pale." "He's an old man," said Red. "R-right," said Jimbo. But Funly was too young and stupid to fall for that kind of reasoning. "We're haunted," said Funly. |