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chapter one
the ground gives way
if you went to near the edge of the chalk paint the ground would give away
bunny had been told this often enough
everybody had tilden his grandmother every time he came to stay with him
his sister every time she wasn't telling him something else
bonnie had a feeling somewhere in his middle it was probably true about the
ground giving way
but still it was a difference between being told and seeing it happen
and today was one of those great days when there was nothing to do nothing to
play and nowhere to go
except to the tropic
the dump
bonnie go through the rickety fence went to the edge of the page
this has been the side of the hill wants ito himself man it come to give away
talk and left his huge hole in the air
he thought of all the sticks of children must have made
and all the black boards in all the schools they must have written on
and most of diamond on file hundreds of years
and then they got tired of taking or somebody told them to stop before they
died away all the hill
and now they did not know what to do with the same people
and they were trying to fill it up again
and i think people didn't want they throw into the bottom of the pit
he crawled through the rough grounds
and peered over
the sides of the people white chalk with lines of flint poking out like bones in
places
and the top was crumbling brown a on the roots of the trees that grow on the edge
the roots looped over the edge twining their and grew back into the air
some of the trees hung over the edge holding only desperately by a few roots
the essential before in a way beneath them one day they too would fall to the
bottom of the paid
streams of ivy natkrita called old man's bs hung in there
far below was the bottom of the pit
the dump
bonnie could see strange bits of wreckage among the marks unveiled the
bushes and metals
was that the steering wheel of a ship the tale of an airplane
at least there was a real bicycle
bunny social he couldn't make it geli only he could get a kick
they didn't let him have a bicycle
bonnie wish he was at the bottom of the pit
on the ground
gateway
bunny frailties head going down andy's feet going up
who was a rattle falling after anything
benny was falling still clutching the kind of grass that was falling within
this is what it's like when the ground gives way
don't bother me
they seem to ten a complete summer sold in the air but it was ledge of chalk off
way down crashed through some creepers and i_b_m_ branches and landed on a bank
of marks
he sports did those funny things they do when you buy me ahead and he's on the
founders of thinking about what you have for dinner last tuesday all mixed up
with seven times six
bonnie laying with his eyes shut