"Robert_McCloskey-Homer_Price" - читать интересную книгу автора (Mccloskey Robert)
"I think you will be comfortable here," he said, "and that will be four dollars in advance, please."
"Here's a five-dollar bill, Buddy, you can keep the change," said one of the men.
"Thanks," said Homer as he stuffed the bill in his pocket and hurried out the door because there was a car outside honking for gas.
He was just about to put the five-dollar bill in the cash register when he smelled that strange mixture, partly "the distinctive invigorating smell that keeps you on your toes," and partly Aroma. He sniffed the bill and sure enough, that was what he had smelled!
"The robbers!. Those four men are the robbers!" said Homer to himself.
He decided that he had better call up the sheriff and tell him everything. He knew that the sheriff would be down at the barber shop in Centerburg playing checkers and talking politics with his friends, this being Saturday night. He waited until his mother was busy getting an extra blanket for someone because he did not think it was necessary to frighten her. Then he called the barber shop and asked to talk to the sheriff.
"Hello," said Homer to the sheriff, "those four robbers are spending the night out here at our tourist camp. Why don't you come out and arrest them?"
"Well, I'll be switched," said the sheriff. "Have they got the money and the lotion with them?"
"Yes, they brought it," said Homer.
"Well, have they got their guns along too?" asked the sheriff.
"I don't know, but if you hold the line a minute I'll slip out and look," said Homer.
He slipped out and peeped through the window of the robbers' cabin. They were getting undressed and their guns were lying on the table and on the chairs and under the bed and on the dresser-there were lots of guns. Homer slipped back and told the sheriff, "They must have a dozen or two."
"O.K. See you later, sheriff," said Homer.
Later when his mother came in, Homer said, "Mother, I have some very important business, do you think that you could take care of things for a while?"
"Well, I think so, Homer," said his mother, "but don't stay away too long."
Homer slipped up to a window in the robbers' cabin and started keeping an eye on them.
They were just getting into bed, and they were not in a very good humor because they had been arguing about how to divide the money and the six bottles of lotion that were left.
They were afraid too, that one of the four might get up in the night and run away with the suitcase, with the money, and the lotion in it. They finally decided to sleep all four in one bed, because if one of them got out of bed it would surely wake the others up. It was a tight fit, but they all managed to get into bed and get themselves covered up. They put the suitcase with the money and the lotion inside right in the middle of the bed. After they had turned out the light it was very quiet for a long while, then the first robber said, "You know, this ain't so comfortable, sleeping four in a bed."
"I know," the second robber said, "but it's better than sleeping in the woods where there are mosquitoes."
"And funny little animals that don't smell so nice," added the third robber.
"You must admit, though, that our present condition could be described as being a trifle overcrowded," said the one with the college education.
"Them's my feelings exactly," said the first robber. "We might as well start driving to Mexico, because we can't sleep like this. We might as well ride toward the border."
"No, driving at night makes me nervous," said the second robber.
"Me too," said the third. Then there followed a long argument, with the first and third robbers trying to convince the second and fourth robbers that they should go to Mexico right
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