“Shall we go to the clubhouse and see if Pop’s still tied up?” Jimmy asked as they turned in at the gates. “Let’s go to your house. If your father’s finished his meeting, he’s probably gone home. And if he hasn’t, Grandma’ll be there, anyway.” So they went directly to Jimmy’s house, pulled into t...
Djuna Learns from Alberto AS SOON as he had finished breakfast the next morning, Djuna started for Billy’s house. But first he went around to the dingy little hotel, the Harbor House, creeping up the alley that led to the back of the hotel, and keeping carefully out of sight of anyone who might b...
The Black Dog Leaps MISS ANNIE Ellery woke up that morning at seven. The sun was streaming through her window. Dressing, she went out into the hall. Djuna’s door was closed; and there was not a sound from his bedroom. Miss Annie smiled, and tiptoed past his door. “Poor boy, he had an awfully long...
The varicolored electric light bulbs at the base of the palm trees around the yacht basin at Dolphin Beach were blazing with holiday cheer. And, among the lights on the lavishly decorated pine tree that grew in front of the Yachtel, there was a loud-speaker that was singing Christmas carols. In t...
“Little Boats Should Keep Near Shore” “Djuna says that he can never see anything the first time, until he has looked at it twice.” –From Ben Franklin Junior’s Almanac. WHEN THE BOYS were outside on the street Ben looked at a clock in a jeweler’s window across the street and said, “Oh boy, three m...
“It was someone in back of the stage,” she hissed. “Stop! Let him out of that box!” Shouting, Fisty rushed toward the stage. A sudden, frightened hush came over the audience. From the rear of the theater two burly ushers charged after the boy. They seized him as he tried to climb up to the stage....
THE YELLOW HAWK WHILE Gully, Prema, and Balbir were piling into the squad car, Sergeant Velie said quickly to Shamshir Singh, “Look, Mr. Singh, I don’t know what the inspector’s grandson is up to, but he seems to have been right all along, and there’s no time to argue with him now—” “What is it y...
Are you home?” Djuna put one finger over his lips to warn Bobby and then quickly slipped Miss Annie’s Bible back on the shelf where she always kept it. “We’re in here, Miss Annie,” he called. “I do declare!” Miss Annie said as she appeared in the doorway, and Djuna rose, respectfully, from the ch...
said Tommy from his lookout post on the front porch of their cottage. “Here they come! There are about six people in Captain Ben’s boat, and he’s towing two rowboats filled with people. I’ll go down to the dock and meet ’em!” “So will I!” said Djuna as he jumped up from the large, comfortable cha...
They didn’t bother him with questions because he seemed to be deeply absorbed with his thoughts and they didn’t want to annoy him. They even refrained from questioning him when he nodded to a man who was eight feet tall and wore high-heeled cowboy’s boots to make him look even taller. With the gi...
He had finished washing and was combing his hair with Buddy’s comb, while thoughtfully looking at the ground, when he noticed them. He remembered the running footsteps the night before and handed the comb to Buddy and went over to the tree where the footprints began, and bent down to examine them...