Stanley moved up one place in line.

January 16th, 2011

All too soon Stanley was back out on the lake, sticking his shovel into the dirt.X-Ray was right: the third hole was the hardest. So was the fourth hole. And the fifth hole. And the sixth, and the . . .He dug his shovel into the dirt.After a while he’d lost track of the day of the week, and how many holes he’d dug. It all seemed like one big hole, and it would take a year and a half to dig it. He guessed he’d lost at least five pounds. He figured that in a year and a half he’d be either in great physical condition, or else dead.He dug his shovel into the dirt.It couldn’t always be this hot, he thought. Surely it got cooler in December. Maybe then they froze.He dug his shovel into the dirt.His skin had gotten buy wow gold tougher. It didn’t hurt so much to hold the shovel. As he drank from his canteen he looked up at the sky. A cloud had appeared earlier in the day. It was the first cloud he could remember seeing since coming to Camp Green Lake.He and the other boys had been watching it all day, hoping it would move in front of the sun. Occasionally it got close, but it was just teasing them.His hole was waist deep. He dug his shovel into the dirt. As he dumped Cheap wow gold it out, he thought he saw something glisten as it fell onto the dirt pile. Whatever it was, it was quickly buried.Stanley stared at the pile a moment, unsure if he’d even seen it. Even if it was something, what good would it do him? He’d promised to give anything he found to X-Ray. It didn’t seem worth the effort to climb out of his hole to check it out. He glanced up at the cloud, which was close enough to the sun that he had to squint to look at it. He dug his shovel back into the earth, scooped out some dirt, and lifted it over his dirt pile. But instead of dumping it there, he tossed it off to the Cheap wow gold side. His curiosity had gotten the better of him.He climbed up out of his hole and sifted his fingers through the pile. He felt something hard and metallic. He pulled it out. It was a gold tube, about as long and as wide as the second finger on his right hand. The tube was open at one end and closed at the other. He used cheap wow gold a few drops of his precious water to clean it.There seemed to be some kind of design on the flat, closed end. He poured a few more drops of water on it and rubbed it on the inside of his pants pocket. He looked dofus kamas again at the design engraved into the flat bottom of the tube. He could see an outline of a heart, with the letters K B etched inside it. He tried to figure out some way that he wouldn’t have to give it to X-Ray. He could just keep it, but that wouldn’t do him any good. He wanted a day off. He looked at the large piles of dirt near where X-Ray was digging. X-Ray was probably almost finished for the day. Getting the rest of the day off would hardly do him much good. X-Ray would first have to show the tube to Mr. Sir or Mr. Pendanski, who would then have to show it to the Warden. By then X-Ray might be done anyway. Stanley wondered about wow gold trying to secretly take the tube directly to the Warden. He could explain the situation to the Warden, and the Warden might make up an excuse for giving him the day off, so X-Ray wouldn’t suspect. He looked across the lake toward the cabin under the two oak trees. The place scared him. He’d been at Camp Green Lake almost two weeks, and he still hadn’t seen the Warden. That was just as well. If he could go his entire year and a half without seeing the Warden, that would be fine with him.Besides, he didn’t know if the Warden would find the tube “interesting.” He looked at it again. It looked familiar. He thought he’d seen something like it, somewhere before, but couldn’t quite place it.
“What you got there, Caveman?” asked Zigzag.
Stanley’s large hand closed around aion gold the tube. “Nothin’, just, uh . . .” It was useless. “I think I might have found something.”
“Another fossil?”
“No, I’m not sure what it is.”
“Let me see,” said Zigzag.
Instead of showing it to Zigzag, Stanley brought it to X-Ray. Zigzag followed.X-Ray looked at the tube, then rubbed his dirty glasses on his dirty shirt and looked at the tube again. One by one, the other boys dropped their shovels and came to look.
“It looks like an old shotgun shell,” said Squid.
“Yeah, that’s probably what buy wow gold it is,” said Stanley. He decided not to mention the engraved design. Maybe nobody would notice it. He doubted X-Ray could see it.
“No, it’s too long and thin to be a shotgun shell,” said Magnet.
“It’s prob’ly just a piece of junk,” said Stanley.
“Well, I’ll show it to Mom,” said X-Ray. “See what he aion gold thinks. Who knows? Maybe I’ll get the day off.”
“Your hole’s almost finished,” said Stanley.
“Yeah, so?”
Stanley raised and lowered his shoulder. “So, why don’t you wait until tomorrow to show it to Mom?” he suggested. “You can pretend Dofus kamas you found it first thing in the morning. Then you can get the whole day off, instead of just an hour or so this afternoon.” X-Ray smiled. “Good thinking, Caveman.” He dropped the tube into his large pocket on the right leg of his dirty orange pants.Stanley returned to his hole.When the water truck came, Stanley started to take his place at the end of the line, but X-Ray told him to get behind Magnet, in front of Zero. Stanley moved up one place in line.

X-Ray laughed.

January 16th, 2011

Again, Stanley was the last one to finish digging. It was buy wow gold late afternoon when he dragged himself back to the compound. This time he would have accepted a ride on the truck if it was offered.
When he got to the tent, he found Mr. Pendanski buy wow gold and the other boys sitting in a circle on the ground.
“Welcome, Stanley,” said Mr. Pendanski.
“Hey, Caveman. You get your hole dug?” asked Magnet.
He managed to nod.
“You spit in it?” asked Squid.
He nodded again. “You’re right,” he Cheap wow gold said to X-Ray. “The second hole’s the hardest.”
X-Ray shook his head. “The third hole’s the hardest,” he said.
“Come join our wow gold circle,” said Mr. Pendanski.
Stanley plopped down between Squid and Magnet. He needed to cheap wow gold rest up before taking a shower.
“We’ve been discussing what we want to do with our lives,” said Mr. Pendanski.
“We’re not going to be at Camp Green dofus kamas Lake forever. We need to prepare for the day we leave here and join the rest of society.”
“Hey, that’s great, Mom!” said Magnet. “They’re going to finally let you out of here?”
The other boys laughed.
“Okay, José ,” said Mr. Pendanski. “What do you Dofus kamas want to do with your life?”
“I don’t know,” said Magnet.
“You need to think aion gold about that,” said Mr. Pendanski. “It’s important to have goals.
Otherwise you’re going to end up right back in jail. What do you like to do?”
“I don’t know,” said aion gold Magnet.
“You must like something,” said Mr. Pendanski.
“I like animals,” said Magnet.
“Good,” said Mr. Pendanski. “Does anyone cheap wow gold know of any jobs that involve animals?”
“Veterinarian,” said Armpit.
“That’s right,” said Mr. Pendanski.
“He could work in a zoo,” said Zigzag.
“He belongs in the zoo,” said Squid, then Cheap wow gold he and X-Ray laughed.
“How about you, Stanley? Any ideas for José ?”
Stanley sighed. “Animal trainer,” he said. “Like for the circus, or movies, or something like that.”
“Any of those jobs sound good to you, José ?” asked Mr. Pendanski.
“Yeah, I like what Caveman said. About training animals for movies. I think it would be fun to train monkeys.”
X-Ray laughed.

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