Unit 1: Selection Vocabulary 3

MICKEY (leg shaking, swallows hard ): Sort of. I’ve been going over in my head what I could have possibly done to merit being summoned to the principal’s office, and though there is that spitball incident from this morning on the bus, it was only this morning and mostly between my brother Ricky and me...

MICKEY (leg shaking, swallows hard ): Sort of. I’ve been going over in my head what I could have possibly done to merit being summoned to the principal’s office, and though there is that spitball incident from this morning on the bus, it was only this morning and mostly between my brother Ricky and me...

PRINCIPAL ABREGO: Mickey, Bucho was so adamant that he wasn’t the culprit that he recommended I bring you in on the case.

PRINCIPAL ABREGO: Mickey, Bucho was so adamant that he wasn’t the culprit that he recommended I bring you in on the case.

MICKEY: Yeah, but what kind of a detective would I be if I’m presuming a kid is guilty instead of presuming he’s innocent? Not a very good one.

We did remember what Mr. Brenkman said about honesty, but we were baseball fans too, and since we were prepared to follow Scout law—being loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent—we figured a 900 batting average was not bad.

Max’s prize possession, however, was an official Scout compass.

Horse, envious, complained he was getting hungry.

Then we became so absorbed in our Marvel Family comics we missed our station.

The closer we drew to the bridge, the more immense it seemed.

We approached a grove of trees.

Grinning with relief, we simultaneously clasped hands.

The following day he was there, but he was headed out right after lunch and he didn’t feel safe leaving us behind without supervision.

Twice before he had hustled us this way of our time and effort. Always dangling the carrot in front of our eyes, then snatching it away last second.

The next time was real hard labor. He said, “Help me dig these holes here, then we can put up some basketball rims..."

You’ve shown me so much disrespect today you don’t deserve to play on my court. It was a privilege and not a right, and you messed it up.

I’d say, to both of them, “That was you? I thought you and Orlie were in Mission taking care of some business, so it never occurred to me to stop to help a neighbor. Geez, I’m so sorry.”