Contents

1Charge It, Please[3]
2Change for a Ten-Dollar Bill[18]
3P. T. A. Meeting[29]
4No Safe Hiding Place[44]
5New Neighbors[56]
6"The Stars and Stripes Forever"[66]
7Working on Andy[81]
8The Auction[93]
9As Good as a Watchdog[107]
10May Day[125]
11Welcome Home![138]

Jerry's
Charge
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1

Charge It, Please

Jerry tried to be quiet, but he bumped into the one chair in the kitchen on his way to the kitchen cupboard. And it was not his fault that the cream pitcher fell when he took the sugarbowl from the shelf. Jerry made a quick and nice southpaw catch. Pretty good, he thought, for a right-hander. He hadn't been able to use his right because it was holding the sugarbowl. He had dumped the sugar into a cereal dish and was busily pouring salt into the sugarbowl when his mother entered the kitchen.