The old man frowned. Life seemed suddenly stale, flat, and boring. What he needed, he realized, was some excitement!,Jolly Solly: Search Party,The old man frowned. Life seemed suddenly stale, flat, and boring. What he needed, he realized, was some excitement!
M r. Krankowitz had finished pruning his rosebushes and weeding the flower beds. He looked around to see if there was anything else left to do. There wasn’t. The old man frowned. Life seemed suddenly stale flat and boring. What he needed he realized was some excitement!
He thought back to the time he’d helped the police track down a gang of counterfeiters in the alleyway behind his back garden. The police had arrested them — and Mr. Krankowitz had even had his picture in the paper! If only he could have another adventure like that again…
Mr. Krankowitz looked up and down Sunny Lane for inspiration but the street was quiet. The big kids were in school; the little ones like Miriam Morris and Shimmy Rabinowitz were in playgroup. Even Jolly Solly’s cheerful open-top car was missing from its usual place outside the clown’s house. Bah!
The old man decided to check around the back in the alleyway. After all that’s how he’d found the counterfeiters that time: by noticing lights flashing in the alleyway at night. Of course no one had believed him at first — he snorted at the memory — but Jolly Solly had soon sorted everything out.
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