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Show 130 and blue lights on his bunker on the porch roof, Big Dick Jinx had lights on his truck, Karl put his circus cannon on the xx porch for the first time and hung lights on that. Dean Danger put out a reindeer with lights. The Puerto Ricans upstairs hung lights from the parrot perches that were empty now because it was too cold for the parrots. Even Red hung lights along the porch railings. The Gorky's and the Stucka's had lights. It was getting pretty hard xxst to think that Christmas wasn't importantj and the world or at least our neighborhood was momentarily not infatuated wif deaf but the other- I started thinking about Christmas presents. But my money had gotten pretty low since the £xxx£ Thanksgiving giveaway, and all that money spent on camera film and lunches with Kara Ruzci. I needed another strike. But Karl wouldn't go for it at all. We'd finally made the papers with the last one, and the article even pointed out that we hit during football games. Well football season was over, that's what I kept thinking, football season was over- Karl was working on a new cannon, his Howitzer. Crow was down in the kxxamx basement with him and Karl had got a new pig too. The place smelled like men's room at Cleveland Municipal Stadium. "Don't even think k about it," said Karl without looking up from the cannon. "Next year you'll budget yourself a little better." "Got a Corn Kurl?" said Crow. "You got the wrong Loop," Karl said to him. He looked up at me. "Your brothers have ruined that bird." "Funly said he and Jimbo might put a turret on the bomb shelter, " I said to him. "No," said Crow. "Your brothers have xx turned i him into a gossip," said Karl. "He knows everything in the neighborhood." Crow hopped onto ax my shoulder. "Come on, buddy, cough up a Corn Curl." "I didn't ask you, I asked Karl," I said to him. Crow looked at Karl then me then Karl then me. He flew over and landed on the pig. "Cough one up, buddy, " he said to the pig. "Now don't tell Red about that pig," K*rl said. "We're going to eat M m for New Years. Easter anyways." |