2. "One!" We heard Junior say firmly.
3. "Yeow," squalled Hey Bag, our cat.
4. "Two," snapped Junior.
5. "Yeow! Yeow," squawked the cat.
6. "What on earth can be going on in there with junior counting and the cat yelling, "Yeow," Mother asked as she and dad eased toward the door of Junior's Room.
7. "That's fine, Hey Bag. Now count to three," demanded Junior, simultaneously pinching the tail of the sputtering cat three times.
8. "Son! Stop that this instant!!" exclaimed Dad, his every other word punctuated by, "Yeow," from the counting cat.
9. Junior leaped to his feet and stroked the cat gently. "School's out, Hey Bag! Come on, and I'll rob my piggy bank to get you some liver." …show more content…
"Of all things!" dad continued to scold.
11. Later that night, after hearing dad's lecture, Junior promised, " I'll never do it again, Pop. Never!"
12. Then, as a kind of an afterthought, he added, "Do you suppose Hey Bag and I can get a job with the circus when I grow up?"
1. In 1831, a man named Michael Faraday, my history teacher, began experimenting with a magnet and a copper disk.
2. "Oh, I read about Faraday in the book, You and Science," Hector muttered.
3. "Faraday's important discovery," continued Mr. McCall, "is described in yesterday's assignment."
4. I then remembered the chapter entitled Science is Applied to Industry and Agriculture.
5. Was it Michael Faraday who wrote I have at last succeeded in magnetizing and electrifying a ray of light.
6. When I said that Faraday turned magnetism into electricity,' Mr. McCall exclaimed, "Good for you