Chapter 17 Uncle

Chapter 17 Uncle

When they pulled into the Fair Grounds, they could hear

music and see the Ferris wheel turning in the sky. They could

smell

the

dust

of

the race

track

where

the

sprinkling

cart

had

moistened it; and they could smell hamburgers frying and see

balloons aloft. They could hear sheep blatting in their pens.

An

enormous

voice

over

the

loudspeaker

said:

please!

Will

the

owner

of

a

Pontiac

car,

license

number

H-2439,

please

move your car away from the fireworks shed!

money?

stop at the right number,

going

to

steer

a

jet

plane

and

make

it

bump

into

another

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one.

raspberry soda pop?

children

be

quiet

till

we

get

the

pig

unloaded,

said

Mrs. Arable.

Mr. Arable.

comes once

a

year.

Fern two quarters and tow dimes. He gave Avery five dimes and

four

nickels.

run

along1

he

said.

remember,

the

money

has to last all day. Don't spend it all the first few minutes.

And be back here at the truck at noontime so we can all have

lunch together. And don't eat a lot of stuff that's going to

make

you

sick

to

your

stomachs.

if

you

go

in

those

swings,

said Mrs. Arable,

Hear me?

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mother.

don't

cross

the

race

track

when

the

horses

are

coming!

cried Mrs. Zuckerman.

The

children

grabbed

each

other

by

the

hand

and

danced

off

in the direction of the merry-go-round, toward the wonderful

music

and

the

wonderful

adventure

and

the

wonderful

excitement,

into the wonderful midway where there would be no parents to

guard them and guide them, and where they could be happy and

free and do as they pleased. Mrs. arable stood quietly and

watched them go. Then she sighed. Then she blew her nose.

they've

got

to

grow

up

some

time,

said

Mr.

Arable.

a

fair

is

a

good

place

to

start,

I

guess.

Wilbur

was

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being

unloaded

and

taken

out

of

his

crate

and

into

his

new

pigpen,

crowds gathered to watch. They stared at the sign ZUCKERMAN'S

FAMOUS PIG. Wilbur stared back and tried to look extra good.

He was pleased with his new home. The pen was grassy, and it

was shaded from the sun by a shed roof.

Charlotte,

watching

her

chance,

scrambled

out

of

the

crate

and

climbed

a

post

to

the

under

side

of

the

roof.

Nobody

noticed

her.

Templeton, not wishing to come out in broad daylight,

stayed quietly

under

the

straw

at

the

bottom

of

the

crate.

Mr.

Zuckerman poured some skim milk into Wilbur's trough, pitched

clean straw into his pen, and then he and Mrs. Zuckerman and

the Arables walked away toward the cattle barn to look at

purebred

cows

and

to

see

the

sights.

Mr.

Zuckerman

particularly

wanted

to

look

at

tractors.

Mrs.

Zuckerman

wanted

to

see

a

deep

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