I'm not now but that's only because I don't have the suit yet Anyway you want to come with me downtown I'm going right now Sure I
HHHHHHH LOVELY DOWNTOWN HAIRSPRINKLE've heard that people in other towns say Hairsprinkle is a very strange place Maybe because nothing ever changes here Back like a hundred years ago lots of towns had trolley cars that went right down the middle of the street on tracks just like little trains Eventually people got their own cars and didn't want trolley cars anymore and got tired of bumping over the trolley tracks all the time So all these towns paved over the tracks and sold the trolleys for scrap But not Hairsprinkle Hairsprinkle still has its trolleys and you can still ride them for ten cents The people in Hairsprinkle won't elect anyone to be mayor unless he or she promises to never change a thing My dad Lenny Flem Sr says that it costs a ton of money to keep the trolleys running and the ten cent fare doesn't even begin to pay for it and that's why his taxes are so high and he's sick of it But'm not sick of it I love riding the trolleys One of them goes down Hair Avenue just two blocks down Sprinkle Street from where me and Casper live So it's not a big deal to tell our parents we're
downtown walk two blocks pay ten cents and ride right into the city We do it all the time And Casper and I have spent a lot of time downtown at Sven's Fair Price Store and the Hairsprinkle Hot Dog and other places But I had never bothered to go into Chauncey’s Big Small Short Tall before That's the first place Casper wanted to go that fateful
THE SUIT Ire you boys selling candy bars for your GottDangled school No more candy bars Get the Helchfitz out of here I was ready to get the Helchfitz out of the store but Casper didn't budge Don't worry he whispered When you've got four hundred dollars to spend you get treated differently Are you Chauncey he asked the angry man No Where is Chauncey Dead Oh I'm sorry said Casper He died in 1908 I'm his brother Red If Chauncey had died over a hundred years ago I didn't have any idea how old Red was Nor was there anything red about him But it didn't seem smart to ask personal questions'd like a suit said Casper Go to the GottDangled Walmart like everybody else We don't have a kids section I don't want a kids suit Kids suits make you look stupid I
