![]() ![]() After getting off the train, they're taken by the farmhand Stanley, who, to put it gently, isn't playing with a full deck. Plot: Jodie and her brother Mark are on their annual trip to their grandparents' farm. Then I felt rough straw brush against my face - as the dry scarecrow arm moved to my throat. I stopped when, out of the corner of my eye, I saw the scarecrow's arm move. "Huh?" The boss of the s-scarecrows?" I stammered. "I made them walk, Jodie," Stanley continue in a voice just above a whisper. Once again, he got that very solemn expression on his face. "Huh? You mean you can make the scarecrows walk*?" I asked, very confused.* "The book told me how to make them walk." ![]() "The book told me how," Stanley replied, keeping his eyes on the dark-painted face on the burlap bag. "What does that mean*?" I asked Stanley.* ![]() Mark was trying to slap the scarecrow a high-five. Passage: "The scarewrow walks at midnight," Stanley said, repeating the phrase he had used at the train station. ![]()
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