Maniac Magee (16 page)

“Hilarious.… A lively, absorbing novel.”

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Horn Book

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* fin·ster·wal·lies (fin’ster-wäl-ez)
n
. [Two Mills, Pa., W. End] Violent trembling of the body, especially in the extremities (arms and legs)
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* It turned out to be four and a half blocks long. Someone tied it to a stop sign and started walking, and that’s how far he got before it gave out. aside, grabbing more scraps, crying out, “Oh no! . …Oh
no!
” And then she was running.
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* Nobody knows why “buffalo” became “bull” in the jump-rope song. History often gets things wrong.
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