6/27/2023 0 Comments Meet Samantha by Susan S. Adler![]() ![]() ![]() She thinks about how Grandmary will look at her if she sees it she is very stern with Samantha when she is improper. Samantha looks at her knee-the blood has stopped but her stocking is ripped. ![]() Eddie makes a face and leaves to find a better hiding place for his beetle collection. Eddie is about to say another thing, but Samantha cuts him off and says that if he doesn't leave right now, she will take his beetle collection from behind the shed, put it in the church offering plate on Sunday, and tell his mother he did it. Samantha says that three times four is twelve. Eddie instead replies that Samantha is so dumb that she thinks three times four is twelve. She glares at Eddie icily and tells him to go away. Samantha looks at her scraped knee, pained not by her knee, but by Eddie. He says Samantha is so dumb she doesn't know how to climb a tree. Eddie Ryland, her next door neighbor, is in the hedge between their houses and was the one who startled her and calls her dumb. An oak tree rustles and Samantha, who had been climbing in the tree, tumbles out. Samantha spots Eddie after falling out of a tree. ![]() Chapter by Chapter Summary Chapter One: Jessie ![]()
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