I feel like having an adventure. I only wish our shadow would stop whining. Shadow, don’t you know that shadows don’t whine?” But Shadow paid no attention. He ran along, whining softly. Violet said to Benny, “I don’t know why you want another adventure. I’d say we have had an adventure already—not to say a mystery.” “Well, I like adventures all the time,” replied Benny. “Now look—isn’t that a vegetable stand up the road? It has a big red sign. Now that’s interesting.” “There’s a boy selling vegetables,” Jessie said, looking down the road. Then the Aldens saw a man carrying a basket from a field to the roadside stand. He walked slowly, and seemed tired. “Why doesn’t that boy help?” Benny asked. They all found the answer when they rode up to the stand. The boy had one leg in a cast. A pair of crutches stood in the corner of the shed behind him. The boy saw the Aldens looking at him. “I fell in the barn and broke my leg,” he told them. “Oh,”
