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The Midnight Fox -by BETSY BYARS

Chapter 2

The Trouble with leaving

The evening before I went to the farm, my friend Petie came over and we sat on the steps without saying anything.

 Usually 我们we 聊talked all the time, but that evening we just sat there and watched an ant on Petie's sneaker. Petie was transferring the ant from one sneaker to the other, crossing his legs all kinds of different ways, so that no matter which way the ant ran he was always on a sneaker. This ant must have thought, Wow! There are one thousand boys in sneakers lined up here and I will never get to the end of them.

    Well, finally Petie got tired and let the ant get off his sneaker and run into the grass. I could just 看see 那只that 蚂蚁ant ...跑running home and his wife saying, 'Why, you must have had a terrible day. You look awful!' And this ant says crossly, 'Well, you wouldn't look so good either if you had run cross one thousand boys!'

    Then PETIE said, 'I wish I could go to the farm.'

    'You don't either, PETIE BURKIS.'

    'Well, I wish I could go to the same farm you're going to. It's not going to be so much fun here by myself, you know.'

    'It'll be more fun than at the farm.'

    'I guess, I saw this TV show about a farm one time,' Petie said, 'and this city kid comes to the farm for a visit and gets lost.'

    'So what happened?'

    'Well, fortunately for this city kid, Lassie lived on this farm, so somebody said, ''Go find him, Lassie, go find the little lost city kid.''

    'And did she find him?'

    'Well, I turned to something else myself, but I think it's a pretty safe guess that she did.'

    We sat in silence for a few minutes and then I said, 'I'll probably get lost on the farm.'

    'You probably will.'

    'Only there won't be any Lassie to come find me.'

    'Yeah, but there'll probably be some other kind of animal, like a real smart horse-'

    'Or a pig,' I said disgustedly.

   'Yeah, there'll be a real smart little pig, and somebody will say, ''Go find him, Piggie, go find the city kid,' and Piggie will find you and the next day there'll be big headlines all over the world: BOY RESCUED FROM DEATH BY PIGGIE.' Petie was going to be a reporter when he grows up, so he was good at doing headlines. One time the teacher hit his hand with a ruler because he kept on tapping his desk after she asked him to stop, and he made up this headline - BOY DEALT CRIPPLING BLOW BY TEACHER - and then he went on to write a story that sounded like it really had........

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