OCR Text |
Show 81 There was all kinds of barking and screaming and the oldest boy had his sisters by the hair and kept knocking their heads together, bango, then everybody fell down laughing like the dickens. Sophie flapped her arms and a yelled "arble-scrupe-lbl-rabba!" It was good to notice she xaxxxxxxgxxaxalxx could use vowels. Amidst it all Karl looked like the most peaceful man in the world. He carried in the rug and the table and the chairs and the blue jay, put the crow on his shoulder and took the dogs inside, then opened the upstairs window and put them on the porch roof. "Try to get off there, ya dummies," he said. Already there were no cats in sight. He came down and got the pig and iak took it inside, then got Sophie and took her inside, then got the kids and put them inside. Then he came over and knocked on our holding his bowling ba! We all followed Red. Karl couldn't shake,his hand because Red was A "Hello," said Karl. "Hello," said the crow. "Cute little bugger, aint he?" said Karl. "You got a god-damn pig in your house," said Red. The dogs were barking down at Karl from the roof of his porch. "Now shut-up!" yelled Karl, and they did. "God bless'em," said the crow. Karl rubbed his unshaved gray-red face and then scratched xxx the back of his head. He grinned for the first time and showed that he didn't have his top front four teeth. "I can see I can deal directly with you," he said. Red was on the porch now, pumping the bowling ball up and down from his shoulder to the air and looking down at Karl. "You bowl?" said Red. xRaxxxxxxxxiax£xiXBxg^xika±xxxxxxxaa^iKaxxkxiixxxxiix£xxaia xxxxxxx "If I have to," said Karl. He looked up xxxikaxx at the bowling ball. "For a minute I thought you owned a cannon." I came out onto the porch and Red v/as xxak smacking the bowling ball in his palm, smack, xx smack, smack. Over at Funster's Jimbo had his telescope trained on us from the top of his porch. The crow regarded me askance. |