And Pop answered, “I’ve decided you’re not going to have even one hour of insomnia tonight—not even one.”

Mom yawned then, and said while she was still doing it:

“The way I feel now, I may not even have one minute.”

I crept away then and moved out through the drumming of the cicadas and the cheeping of the crickets toward the moonlit iron pitcher pump, feeling fine inside and glad to be alive.


Seems like there’s always a mystery popping up at Sugar Creek. This exciting story is no exception as it lands the Gang right smack in the middle of some peculiar happenings in a watermelon patch in the middle of the night. Author Paul Hutchens is the happy friend of all Young America.

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