bighearted He always fought for what he thought was right In other words he was stubborn right In other words he was stubborn In my opinion it should be a scene drawn from nature some thing authentic A vision of tran quility in the center of the city Tai Bengali was the brains of the trio as well as Phlox’s partner on their championship sixth-grade mathletics team You gotta be kidding me Tai said Phil Prairie Phlox’s twin I mean you want people to actually look at this thing right That means you need action Excitement Danger He himself was a prairie dog of action and according to his friends a little too easily excited The three boys had been best friends since kindergarten where they bonded over (cid:70)(cid:85)(cid:68)(cid:92)(cid:82)(cid:81)(cid:86)(cid:15)(cid:3)(cid:192)(cid:81)(cid:74)(cid:72)(cid:85)(cid:3)(cid:83)(cid:68)(cid:76)(cid:81)(cid:87)(cid:15)(cid:3)(cid:68)(cid:81)(cid:71)(cid:3)(cid:86)(cid:81)(cid:68)(cid:70)(cid:78)(cid:3) time The interest in art stuck and over the years each developed his own unique style Tai strove to make his drawings 4
as realistic and accurate as possible Rumpus invented strange animals and crazy weapons and Phil’s paintings practically leapt off the paper with action and adventure Between them they had produced thousands of drawings and hundreds of paintings But this was their 5
(cid:192)(cid:85)(cid:86)(cid:87)(cid:3) (cid:80)(cid:88)(cid:85)(cid:68)(cid:79)(cid:15)(cid:3) (cid:68)(cid:81)(cid:71)(cid:3) (cid:87)(cid:75)(cid:72)(cid:76)(cid:85)(cid:3) (cid:192)(cid:85)(cid:86)(cid:87)(cid:3) (cid:87)(cid:76)(cid:80)(cid:72)(cid:3) (cid:90)(cid:82)(cid:85)(cid:78)(cid:76)(cid:81)(cid:74)(cid:3) (cid:87)(cid:82)(cid:74)(cid:72)(cid:87)(cid:75)(cid:72)(cid:85)(cid:3) (cid:82)(cid:81)(cid:3) an art project so things were off to a rocky start The only suggestion by Rumpus’s grandfather whose wall they were painting was that the subject be something from the Wild West From there they were free to do anything they wanted which meant that from there they parted ways Why don’t you three compromise and paint all that stuff in together Phlox suggested (cid:36)(cid:3) (cid:69)(cid:82)(cid:82)(cid:80)(cid:76)(cid:81)(cid:74)(cid:3) (cid:89)(cid:82)(cid:76)(cid:70)(cid:72)(cid:3) (cid:68)(cid:81)(cid:86)(cid:90)(cid:72)(cid:85)(cid:72)(cid:71)(cid:15)(cid:3) (cid:180)(cid:49)(cid:82)(cid:90)(cid:3) (cid:87)(cid:75)(cid:68)(cid:87)(cid:183)(cid:86)(cid:3) (cid:68)(cid:3) (cid:192)(cid:81)(cid:72)(cid:3) idea It was Rumpus’s grandfather Duncan Horn 6
owner of Duncan’s Plumbing Supply Services He walked out of the doorway of his shop plunger in hand Grandpa Duncan had been a plumber in Kansas City for almost forty years and his shop carried every (cid:78)(cid:76)(cid:81)(cid:71)(cid:3)(cid:82)(cid:73)(cid:3)(cid:83)(cid:76)(cid:83)(cid:72)(cid:15)(cid:3)(cid:73)(cid:68)(cid:88)(cid:70)(cid:72)(cid:87)(cid:15)(cid:3)(cid:68)(cid:81)(cid:71)(cid:3)(cid:192)(cid:91)(cid:87)(cid:88)(cid:85)(cid:72)(cid:3)(cid:87)(cid:75)(cid:68)(cid:87)(cid:3)(cid:92)(cid:82)(cid:88)(cid:3)(cid:70)(cid:82)(cid:88)(cid:79)(cid:71)(cid:3)(cid:76)(cid:80)(cid:68)(cid:74)(cid:76)(cid:81)(cid:72)(cid:17)(cid:3) Grandpa Duncan took the same kind of pride in his work that his grandson took in his art because to Grandpa Duncan plumbing was an art Each of you has your own ideas Grandpa Duncan said as he dropped paint cans at the boys feet I get that But sometimes things like this here mural are just too big for any one person to do alone You have to work together You know it’s a lot like plumbing (cid:55)(cid:75)(cid:72)(cid:3) (cid:78)(cid:76)(cid:71)(cid:86)(cid:3) (cid:75)(cid:68)(cid:71)(cid:3) (cid:87)(cid:82)(cid:3) (cid:86)(cid:87)(cid:76)(cid:193)(cid:72)(cid:3) (cid:68)(cid:3) (cid:74)(cid:85)(cid:82)(cid:68)(cid:81)(cid:3) (cid:69)(cid:72)(cid:70)(cid:68)(cid:88)(cid:86)(cid:72)(cid:3) (cid:42)(cid:85)(cid:68)(cid:81)(cid:71)(cid:83)(cid:68)(cid:3) Duncan thought everything was like plumbing soccer tournaments science fair projects camping trips the list went on In a house you have pipes running every which way And when the system is working the way it should you can take a shower at the same time your mother is running the dishwasher But if just one pipe gets clogged all the pipes in the house can back up Grandpa Duncan concluded without missing a beat And that’s why you have to work together You kids get what I’m saying 7
