Later she wonders why the children bothered her so much. This distresses the old woman and she orders them away. Bentley says of course she was a little girl. Bentley lied about being a little girl once. Jane explains that she does not like that Mrs. After a few, though, they grow upset and Mrs.
While Tom and Jane and Alice eat their ice cream, they ask Helen Bentley questions. She sees the children around and one afternoon invites Tom and two girls in to have ice cream. Bentley is an elderly lady relatively new to the town she’d moved here after her husband died. They think of all the memories associated with the rugs and the dirt and stains and pretend to bang them all out. He was, in fact, the only god living in the whole of Green Town, Illinois, during the twentieth century that Douglas Spaulding knew of.Twice a year the family brings all the large rugs outside to beat the dust and grime out of them. Knew the names of all the wild flowers and when the moon would rise or set and when the tides came in or out. Knew the words to all the cowboy songs and would teach you if you asked. Could hit baseballs into apple trees, knocking down harvests. Could live underwater two minutes and slide fifty yards downstream.
Could leap from the sky like a chimpanzee from a vine. He could pathfind more trails than any Choctaw or Cherokee since time began. The facts about John Huff, aged twelve, are simple and soon stated. The only god living in Green Town, Illinois, that Douglas Spaulding knew of. A magical, timeless summer in the life of a twelve-year-old boy named Douglas Spaulding-remembered forever by the incomparable Ray Bradbury. It was a summer of sorrows and marvels and gold-fuzzed bees. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma’s belly-busting dinner. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. The summer of ‘28 was a vintage season for a growing boy.
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