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Grant jumped just before the cart ran over<br />
his foot. “Hey, careful there!” he screeched.<br />
A head thrust out from each side of the cart.<br />
“I can’t believe we have so much luggage,” Papa<br />
said. He looked handsome in the cowboy hat and<br />
boots and leather vest he always wore, but he<br />
was panting like a dog.<br />
Christina plopped down on the floor. “This<br />
luggage cart is crazy. I thought we’d never get this<br />
stuff pushed all the way over here. I’m exhausted!”<br />
“BONG! BONG! BONG!” cried Grant yet again.<br />
Christina and Papa stared at him like he was<br />
crazy. “And just what is that all about?” Papa<br />
asked, holding his head with both hands.<br />
Mimi sighed. “Grant thinks he will just die if<br />
we don’t go see Big Ben right away,” she<br />
explained. “I do not know why he is so excited<br />
about a clock.”<br />
Grant thrust his hands on his hips in his<br />
don’t-make-fun-of-me-just-cause-I’m-only-seven<br />
pose. “It isn’t just any old clock,” he said. “Big<br />
Ben is the most famous clock in the world. It’s<br />
tall and it’s loud and I want to see it.”<br />
“I doubt that it’s as loud as you,” Christina<br />
teased her brother. She brushed her bangs away<br />
from her forehead.<br />
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