CHAPTER TWELVE
HENRY BECOMES
THE FIRST PICKLE
TO FLY AROUND
THE PLANET
Henry looked up at the guards standing at the gate.
They were standing stiffly at attention, looking straight
ahead, so they didn’t see Henry slide by them. Henry
saluted as he entered the gate, but the guards did not
salute back.
Henry made his way through crowds of people and
standing trucks. In the distance was a big rocket
pointing up into the sky. Searchlights were playing on it
and everybody was staring hard at it.
“Why,” said Henry, “it looks like a great big pickle
with a pointed head.”
Some People standing by laughed in the darkness.
“If it were only green it would be a distant cousin
to a pickle!” The people laughed again.
“I wish Cousin Crispin the Cucumber could be here
to see this!” said Henry. “I must remember to tell him
about it when I get back.”
Henry kept going toward the big rocket, and
nobody saw him because it was dark, and everybody was
HENRY
THE
PICKLE
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