“It’s awful spooky.” said Bobby. that there is a secret room in the Donovans’ “I know,” “My Aunt Ann says house. we can get in through the windows that are on the front said I. “I think door,” said Bobby, and started climbing down the cherry tree. said when “Let’s go,” “Look,” he he had reached the whole branch has fallen off. And just full of And we ground, “a it’s cherries.” picked it up and took it over to the porch with us. Donovans’ We tried the windows on the porch. There were three of them, and all were locked. We tried the front door, but it was locked. We tried the back door, but it was locked. We tried the cellar door and the ash barrel door, where they used to take the ash barrel out in the winter time. But they were all locked. And the window on the back porch was locked, and all the cellar windows too. guess we just get said Bobby. “I can’t in,” shinny up the poles on the front porch, and climb on the roof, and see whether “We could the bedroom windows on the second floor are open.” said Bobby, would got to do this “Naw,” “we be seen. We’ve secretly.” is said I, and pointed to a kind of a handle that stuck out of the wall “This thing funny,” on the house. an ice door for a built-in ice Bobby. Grandmother has one “That’s chest,” explained “My just like that.”
“It’s awful spooky.” “I know,” said Bobby. “My Aunt Ann says that there is a secret room in the Donovans’ house. “I think we can get in through the windows that are on the front door,” said I. “Let’s go,” said Bobby, and started climbing down the cherry tree. “Look,” he said when he had reached the ground, “a whole branch has fallen off. And it’s just full of cherries.” And we picked it up and took it over to the Donovans’ porch with us. We tried the windows on the porch. There were three of them, and all were locked. We tried the front door, but it was locked. We tried the back door, but it was locked. We tried the cellar door and the ash barrel door, where they used to take the ash barrel out in the winter time. But they were all locked. And the window on the back porch was locked, and all the cellar windows too. “I guess we just can’t get in,” said Bobby. “We could shinny up the poles on the front porch, and climb on the roof, and see whether the bedroom windows on the second floor are open.” “Naw,” said Bobby, “we would be seen. We’ve got to do this secretly.” “This thing is funny,” said I, and pointed to a kind of a handle that stuck out of the wall on the house. “That’s an ice door for a built-in ice chest,” explained Bobby. “My Grandmother has one just like that.”
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