Miss Dimple Picks A Peck Of Trouble - Plot & Excerpts
Willie Elrod suggested to his friend Junior Henderson. “We can pretend to be soldiers and Ruthie and Lee Anne will be the enemy. We’ll take ’em prisoner and lock ’em in your garage.” “Oh no we won’t! The last time we did that, Lee Anne broke all the fruit jars in there that my mama was saving to put up all that stuff out of the garden.” “Okay, then, let’s pretend like it’s D-day and I’ll be one of our soldiers landing on the beach. You can be the Japanese—you can even be Tojo if you want to,” Willie promised. Junior groaned. “Don’t you know anything? Old Tojo resigned the other day. He’s not chief minister anymore. He might not even be a general.” Willie frowned. He knew he should keep up with the war better than he did. He always paid attention when they showed The March of Time at the picture show, but when the rest of his family gathered around the radio for news broadcasts, he was always outside somewhere, it seemed.
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