Waiting for the Magic by Patricia MacLachlan

Author:Patricia MacLachlan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 2011-03-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

EVERY NIGHT PAPA SLEPT on the couch. He seemed to be home for good. Or not. Who could tell?

The dogs did not have much to say. They were watchers, listeners, spies; gathering information. Mostly they watched Papa.

Neo

He’s not so afraid of us anymore.

Bitty

He doesn’t walk way around us anymore.

Grace

He petted me this morning. And gave me a dog biscuit.

Bryn

Really? Where was I??

“I never had a dog,” Papa told me. “When I was a kid. I remember wanting a dog. But it never happened.”

“That’s too bad,” I said.

“It is,” agreed Papa.

“What would you have named a dog?” Elinor asked. “If you had gotten one?”

Papa tilted his head as if remembering. “Scooter,” he said. “I would have named a dog Scooter.”

He was quiet for a moment.

“Scooter,” he repeated.

Papa cooked many dinners for days and days. He was a better cook than Mama, and Mama was tired a lot of the time. He made spaghetti and hamburgers and soups and different dinners with strange things, such as pineapple, raisins, and chocolate.

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