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You need even more convincing? Fine! Here's the first little bit of
The Day the Junebugs Came
Charlie
knew that summer had come the day the Junebugs arrived. It didn't
matter to him that his mother told him that that wasn't necessarily
true. It didn't matter to him that his father told him that it wasn't
true. And it even didn't matter to him that his teachers told him
that summer always started on the longest day of the year.
Usually,
some time in May, the Junebugs would start arriving in little groups.
He didn't know where they came from or why, just that they would
start showing up. He'd go out in the morning on the way to school and
there would be two or three hanging on the screen of the screen door
and three or four hanging on the screen of the front window and five
or six hanging on the screen of the screened in part of the front
porch. For a few days, there would be a few more everyday. Then, one
day, he would open the door, the hard door, and he wouldn't be able
to see through the screen of the screen door because it would be
entirely covered with the little honey-colored scarab beetles. He
knew, too, that they would be coating all the screens – like beaded
curtains – but not just the screens; there would also be a layer of
them across the porch itself and even some hanging from the ceiling.
That
day each year was the day summer arrived.
OK I paid down my hard earned money, Oh no, it was FREE, silly me.
ReplyDeleteThe snippet about the June bugs got me, I have never seen as many as you describe. Just one or two here and there.
Jo: There were times they were like that when I was a kid. You couldn't walk outside without stepping on them.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the book, Andrew. I, too, liked the snippet, especially the line, "coating the screen like a beaded curtain".
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