Wheeling the Snake - iTutor

“Sorry,” he said.
“Well,” she asked, “you want to?”
“This is so weird. I was just calling Sam to
ask him the same thing. Yeah, why not!”
“Yesss!”
“Hey,” Isaac laughed as he hung up,
“don’t forget your broom!” It was a tradition
for the skaters, on the first Saturday after the
dam closed, to sweep out the ditch.
Isaac fell back on his pillow, his mind
racing.
Wheeling the Snake • Level S
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The next morning, Isaac boarded over
to Sam’s house with his broom. Sam was
still asleep, but his mom let him go down
to his bedroom to get him up. Isaac smacked
the bed with the broom, and Sam came
awake, fast.
“Hey, what the . . . ?”
“Let’s go!”
“Go? Oh, yeah, I forgot. We’ve got to
sweep the ditch.”
“And,” Isaac said, picking a miniature
Snickers bar out of Sam’s Halloween bag on
the floor, “we’re going to ride the Snake!”
“No way!” Sam said, as he quickly rolled
out of bed.
“Jessie and I are going to do it. You
want to?”