Suddenly he straightened, alert to the last nerve. His eyes searched the yard rapidly and with growing joy. He had detected that a good deal of the green foliage had disappeared from the trees and shrubs. It appeared to have been chewed off—systematically and to a level about as high as a man’s shoulder. Orvil threw open the window and inclined his ear toward the hill.
Presently, after some moment, he was rewarded by a faint and far-away hissing. He stood there for a long time, just smiling quietly to himself.
Dinosaurs, Orvil was thinking, were notorious for growing very large very swiftly. Shortly, it appeared, the dinosaur in the back yard was going to be so large that a lot of people would no longer be able to ignore it. It might, in fact, get so big that it would scare the hell out of practically everybody. His smile grew even wider, and he wondered what they would all have to say to him then…
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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Introduction: Henry Farrell and the Story of Baby Jane
Prologue
Part One Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Part Two Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Part Three Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Praise for Henry Farrell and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
What Ever Happened to Cousin Charlotte?
The Debut of Larry Richards
First, The Egg
Newsletters
Copyright
Copyright
Copyright © 2013 by Mitch Douglas and Judith F. Beckman
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Copyright © 1960 by Henry Farrell
“The Debut of Larry Richards” and “First, the Egg” copyright © 2013 by Calvin Mitchell Douglas and Judith F. Beckman
“What Ever Happened to Cousin Charlotte?” and “Henry Farrell and the Story of Baby Jane” copyright © 2013 by Calvin Mitchell Douglas
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