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The Child by Tiger
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- ONE DAY after school, Monk and several of the boys were playing with a football in the yard at Randy Shepperton's.†
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- What they played was really a kind of skeletonized practice game, with Randy and Nebraska back, Gus at center, two other fellows at the ends, and Monk and two or three more on the other side, whose duty was to get in and "break it up" if they could.†
- Bras had just kicked to Monk.†
- It was a good kick too — a high, soaring punt that spiraled out above Monk's head, behind him.†
- The ball rolled away from Monk down towards the corner.†
- That same afternoon Randy and Monk had been fooling around the Shepperton basement, and, seeing that Dick's door was slightly ajar, they stopped at the opening and looked in to see if he was 506 there.†
- Monk's eyes were glued upon it.†
- Monk gulped and nodded his head and couldn't say a word, and Randy whispered.†
- Monk was already almost dressed by the time he came running in across the front yard.†
- He hammered at the door; Monk was already there.†
- He had answered Monk's startled question before he got it out.†
- "Come on!" he said, panting with excitement, his Cherokee black eyes burning with an intensity Monk had never seen before.†
- Monk gasped, pounding at his heels.†
- Even before he spoke Monk had the answer.†
- He 510 had paused to speak for a moment to Mr. Shepperton, and Monk heard Mr. Shepperton say quickly, in a low voice: "Which way did he go?"†
- Monk heard Mrs. Shepperton say quickly as her husband ran up the steps, "Is it Dick?"†
- When he came up, Monk saw that his fine, thin face was white as a sheet.†
- He looked at Monk and whispered: "It's — it's Dick!"†
- Monk couldn't finish.†
- Across the street Monk could hear Mr. Potterham sweating with his Ford.†
- Randy, Bras, and Monk streaked down the driveway to help him.†
- Monk heard one man shout, "He's killed six men!†
- Monk didn't know how fast they went, but it was breakneck speed with streets in such condition.†
- Those running figures streaking towards that dense crowd gathered there made Monk think of nothing else so much as a fight between two boys upon the playgrounds 512 of the school at recess time.†
- Monk's uncle had not yet arrived but they had phoned for him; he was already on the way.†
- But Monk heard Mr. Shepperton swear beneath his breath in vexation: "Damn, if I'd only thought — we could have taken himl" Facing the crowd which pressed in on them so close and menacing that they were almost flattened out against the glass, three or four men were standing with arms stretched out in a kind of chain, as if trying to protect with the last resistance of their strength and eloquence the sanctity of private property.†
- Monk could see Hugh, taller by half a foot than anyone around him, his long, gaunt figure, the gaunt passion of his face, even the attitude of his outstretched bony arms, strangely, movingly Lincoln513 esque, his one good eye (for he was blind in the other) blazing in the cold glare of the corner lamp with a kind of cold, inspired, Scotch passion.†
- They said they wouldn't look, 522 Randy and Monk.†
- Monk turned and looked at him.†
- Monk went in with Randy and his father.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(monk) a male member of a religious order typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)