Henry Huggins

There was a third grade boy named Henry Huggins. He had hair that looked like a scrubbing brush, and most of his grown-up front teeth were in. Henry always thought that nothing cool ever happened to him, except for having his tonsils removed when he was six, and breaking his arm falling out of a cherry tree when he as seven. However, on one particular Wednesday afternoon in March, something happen as Henry was returning home from his one hour swim at the YMCA.

Henry had stopped to buy a chocolate ice cream cone, and as he stood at the bus stop licking his ice cream cone while waiting for his bus to go home, he heard a thump, thump, thump, so he looked around, and there was a dog behind him scratching itself. The dog seemed to be a stray, and it also seemed hungry as he wagged his tail, and watched Henry eat the ice cream cone. Henry felt sorry for the dog and gave him the ice cream cone. Then Henry told the dog to go away but the dog sat at his feet. Henry started to think that it might be nice if he could take the dog home, since he always wanted a dog of his own. Henry decided to name the dog Ribsy because he was so skinny. Before Henry could take Ribsy home, he needed his mother's permission, so he took Ribsy to the phone booth to call his mom. Henry convinced his mother that Ribsy was a good dog and if she allowed him to bring Ribsy home he would feed and wash Ribsy. Henry and Ribsy went to the bus stop, but the bus driver told Henry that he could not take a dog on the bus. Henry went to the drug store and got a box to carry Ribsy home in, but the next bus driver did not let Henry on the bus, because the box was too small. Henry managed to sneak Ribsy on the next bus in a paper bag. Henry and Ribsy were thrown off the bus when the paper bag broke and Ribsy started