![]() ![]() ![]() In it was one lawn chair with most of the webbing missing, one folding chair left over from a church picnic, one three-legged kitchen chair (they used a large rock to balance it), and a bicycle with two flat tires. Inside, the clubhouse was about ten feet by twelve feet-not really big, but large enough for four boys to sit and talk. ![]() It closed with a bent piece of wire coat hanger. ![]() They had cut holes that looked a lot like windows in the two side walls, and for the door, they’d used a smaller section of the fence wall. Using the remains of an old fence that the boys had found in Ziggy’s backyard, they had built the clubhouse themselves the previous summer. Ziggy followed a path, probably used by raccoons, which ran back through the thick underbrush to the clubhouse. It was a place to dream and create-a perfect location for secrets and adventures. It was a place where flowers, weeds, rabbits, and ten-year-old boys could grow wild. Fishing Hiking Cooking over a campfire He couldn’t wait to talk to Rico, Rashawn, and Jerome, the other members of the Black Dinosaurs, about the letter from Camp Caesar. An overnight camping trip he thought eagerly. ZIGGY’S THOUGHTS BOUNCED LIKE HOT POPCORN as he ran through his backyard to the clubhouse of the Black Dinosaurs. ![]()
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