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By Mordecai Richler

While his mom and dad go back from Kenya with a adorable little eco-friendly lizard on his 8th birthday (he’s twice twice two), Jacob Two-Two is extremely joyful. however it isn’t lengthy prior to Jacob realizes that his new puppy Dippy isn’t a lizard in spite of everything. And as months move, it truly is obvious Dippy isn’t so little both. quickly Dippy is attracting every kind of undesirable awareness and ahead of he understands it, Jacob is at the run from the Canadian executive with a full-grown dinosaur to hide.From the Hardcover version.

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No, you weren’t,” Pleaser said, kicking him back harder. “Oh, yes I was too,” Wacko said, pinching him. “Oh, no you weren’t,” Pleaser insisted, spitting at him. In an instant they were rolling over and over in the dirt, pinching and scratching and biting. Two generals had to separate them. ” one of the generals asked. “He did,” Perry Pleaser whined between sobs. “Liar! ” “This has got to stop,” the general pleaded. “You are setting a bad example for the troops. ” “Yes,” Wacko said. “And that dreadful Jacob Two-Two, too.

Stop. ” Dippy sat down. Clunk, clunk, clunk. But the next minute he was burping all over the place, his hot breath uprooting trees and sending them flying. “Oooh,” he moaned. “Poor me. ” “I’ll tell you what,” Jacob Two-Two said. “We’ll try a song. ” Together they sang: “Daisy (burp, burp), Daisy (belch, belch), Give me your answer, do (burp, belch) …” And so on, far into the night. CHAPTER 14 flood of fascinating information began to pour into the Dragon-Slayer’s camp, which lay only four miles away.

But certainly in the Rocky Mountains. A pizza parlor owner called to say a kid who looked just like CANADA’S MOST DANGEROUS DESPERADO had been in earlier for a takeout order of fifty L’ Abbondanza pizzas. The man said he wouldn’t have served him, but the kid was carrying a machine gun and had twelve hand grenades hanging from his belt. Next, the deliveryman explained how, held at gunpoint, he had delivered the pizzas to a remote part of the highway. “There was a big green boulder out there with red eyes,” he said.

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