The Adventures of Stunt Boy and His Amazing Wonder Dog Blindfold Read Online Free PDF

Dad.’
    â€˜Yeah, she’s scared of heights,’ I offered in support, feeling my face blushing. ‘That’s why she works in a restaurant and not in a circus.’
    â€˜Jump in, boys, I’ll drive you over,’ said Sue. ‘We can’t leave your mum stuck up a ladder!’
    â€˜Look, the bus is coming! We’ve got to run,’ said Benny, starting to run off as if he hadn’t heard her. ‘Hurry up, Stunt.’
    â€˜Bye, Sue,’ I yelled as I followed Benny’s lead, Blindfold hot on my heels.
    Benny hadn’t been lying about the bus – it was coming. I had to run and get Blindfold into the sports bag at the same time. It wasn’t easy. I had to hold his ears down so they didn’t get caught in the zip! I don’t know why dogs aren’t allowed on buses. How do people expect them to get around if their owners don’t have cars?
    Blindfold doesn’t really like confined spaces. Once I put him in my straightjacket and left him for ten minutes to see if he could escape on his own, but he couldn’t. He just freaked out and Dad got really mad with me. Blindfold always hides now when he sees me messing around with my straightjacket collection.
    Benny and I got on the bus, holding a handle each because dogs are heavy when you carry them in bags. We bought our tickets, but we didn’t buy Blindfold one because the driver didn’t know he was on his bus. Even though Blindfold didn’t know how to be sneaky, he did know how to be quiet in a bag. He’d learnt that from going to the hospital to visit Dad.
    The bus ride took forever to get OverEast. Stoked is in OverWest. Our city is called Newstadt and has four main districts, the other two being OverSouth and OverEast. If you imagine a circle, Stoked would be at nine o’clock and Chesterley’s Family Circus would be at three o’clock, so you can see how far we had to go. Benny was looking very uneasy the whole journey and kept checking his watch like he was waiting for class to finish on a Friday afternoon.
    It was after 5 pm by the time we got off the bus. I let Blindfold out of the bag. He cocked his leg against a tree and did the longest pee ever, as if he’d drunk an entire swimming pool. He peed and peed and peed until finally he was finished. Then Benny and I spontaneously cheered. Then Blindfold peed again, which made Benny and me both need a pee, so we lost another fifteen minutes on wee.
    Finally we walked up a steep winding hill towards Chesterley’s Circus, which loomed out of the late afternoon sunshine like a walled prison. As we got closer we were hit in the face by a revolting smell.
    â€˜Yuck, smart!’ said Benny, trying to wave the stink away. Smart is our word for when we smell a fart; it’s a combination ‘smell’ and ‘fart’. ‘That smell is worse than your morning breath, Stunt.’
    It was true, my morning breath did stink in the morning, even though I cleaned my teeth every night before I went to bed. Benny once told me it was because of the bacteria that live in your mouth. Apparently there are over five hundred species living on your teeth and tongue! Benny loves random science facts, even if he does gross me out sometimes.
    A steel sign reading Chesterley’s Family Circus hung down over the menacingly high locked metal gates which were embossed with elephants, lions and bears. There was no way we could get over the top of them. The place looked completely deserted. Usually we do one Sunday afternoon matinee show. People don’t come out on Sunday night; they’re too busy preparing for the week ahead, getting ready for school or work.
    Sunday night for my family usually meant me, Jem and Dad cooking a roast dinner together. Every other night we’d eat in the crew mess with the rest of Stoked people but on Sundays, it was just us together in the caravan. Then we’d watch a movie before we all had an