Farewell Summer ~ Ray Bradbury - Marimarister

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Give me one. We always have names. Every boy names us. Every man says that name ten thousand times in his life. ―I don‘t . . . ‖ Understand? Just lie there. You have two hearts now. Feel the pulse. One in your chest. And one below. Yes? ―Yes.‖ Do you actually feel the two hearts? ―Yes. Oh, yes!‖ Go to sleep then. ―Will you be here when I wake up?‖ Waiting for you. Awake long before you. Good night, friend . “ Are we? Friends?" The best you ever had. For life . *** There was a soft rabbit running. Something hit the bed, something burrowed beneath the blankets. ―Tom?‖ ―Yeah,‖ said the voice from under the covers. ―Can I sleep here tonight? Please!‖ ― Why, Tom?‖ ―I dunno. I just had this awful feeling tomorrow morning we‘d find you gone or dead or both.‖ ―I‘m not going to die, Tom.‖ ―Someday you will.‖ ―Well . . .‖ ―Can I stay?‖
―Okay.‖ ―Hold my hand, Doug. Hold on tight.‖ ―Why?‖ ―You ever think the Earth‘s spinning at twenty-five thousand miles per hour or something? It could throw you right off if you shut your eyes and forget to hold on.‖ ―Give me your hand. There. Is that better?‖ ―Yeah. I can sleep now. You had me scared there for a while.‖ A moment of silence, breath going in and out. ―Tom?‖ ―Yeah?‖ ―You see? I didn‘t ditch you, after all.‖ ―Thank gosh, Doug, oh, thank gosh.‖ A wind came up outside and shook all the trees and every leaf, every last one fell off and blew across the lawn. ―<strong>Summer</strong>‘s over, Tom.‖ Tom listened. ―<strong>Summer</strong>‘s done. Here comes autumn.‖ ―Halloween.‖ ―Boy, think of that !‖ ―I‘m thinking." They thought, they slept. The town clock struck four. And Grandma sat up in the dark and named the season just now over and done and past.
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CHAPTER TWO Laid out in his bed at
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faded. ―So long, Doug, so long .
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CHAPTER FOUR There was a great rush
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―Bang!‖ Douglas jumped up the p
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CHAPTER SEVEN When Douglas walked,
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―Doug,‖ he murmured. ―Doug, b
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yup?‖ ―Good thinking, Tom.‖
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―Charlie, you‘ll spoil everythi
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―Okay!‖ everyone shouted. They
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Tom winked at him as he flipped the
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do about these infidels!‖ He coul
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Halloween gourds. ―Jesus,‖ he w
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sky. The boys sat in a circle on th
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efore his face his plan unraveled a
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There was a third strike of lightni
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How did they know it was haunted? B
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―Something like that,‖ said Gra
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―They do say that.‖ ―And they
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CHAPTER TWENTY Just before midnight
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pekoe curtain hung out on the air,
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Page 46 and 47: CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE The courthouse
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Page 80 and 81: CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE A huge question
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