At the beginning of this story, two characters carry out a conversation interrupted several times by theirreluctance to drink some apparently disgusting tea.
At the beginning of this story, two characters carry out a conversation interrupted several times by theirreluctance to drink some apparently disgusting tea. The penultimate sentence of this story is "they didn'twalk back to the house; they raced;" the final sentence tells us who won. One character in this storycombines "Taps" and "Reveille" into a weird bugle call and manages to get her son to cry by tossing him akeychain, even though the boy clearly sees through her charade of pretending to be an admiral. In thisstory, one character is upset that the maidservant Sandra called her mistress's husband "a big sloppy kike;"but when asked to define "kike," he says "It's one of those things that go up in the air." For 10 points, namethis story in which Boo Boo consoles her son Lionel, who runs away to the title watercraft, one of the NineStories by J.D. Salinger.
At the beginning of this story, two characters carry out a conversation interrupted several times by theirreluctance to drink some apparently disgusting tea.
"Down at the Dinghy"