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The Happy Hollisters and the Punch And Judy Mystery

The Happy Hollisters and the Punch And Judy Mystery — page 3
looked around the Hollisters back yard and said I don’t see Joey and Will They told me they’d come And what about Pam curly-haired Ann asked anxiously We can’t begin without all the Hollisters Pam the children chorused Where are you Ricky shouted It was ten-year-old Pam who had thought up the Punch and Judy show to raise money for a special project This was the Fifty Fund sponsored by the Shoreham newspaper to send fifty needy children to summer camp Then Pete had hit on the idea of earning fifty pounds of pennies He had weighed coins and found that there were one hundred forty-seven pennies in a pound Pam’s speedy arithmetic showed that fifty pounds of them would equal seventy-three dollars and fifty cents enough to give one boy or girl two weeks in camp For two weeks the Hollisters spacious rambling home on the shore of Pine Lake had been busy with the Punch and Judy preparations First Pam had borrowed a book of instructions from the library Using it the children had carved and painted the wooden faces dressed the little hand puppets in gay costumes and constructed the stage Now everything was set for the first show The neighborhood children had arrived on the Hollisters lawn and Pete as the showman had already fitted one of the puppets over each of his hands