So You Want To Be A Wizard

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Part of the problem, Nita thought to herself as she tore desperately down Rose Avenue, is that I can't keep my mouth shut.

She had been running for five minutes now, hopping fences, sliding side-ways through hedges, but she was losing her wind. Some ways behind her she could hear Joanne and Glenda and the rest of them pounding along in pursuit, threatening to replace her latest, now- fading black eye. Well, Joanne would come up to her with that new bike, all chrome and silver and gearshift levers and speedometer/odometer and toeclips and waterbottle, and ask what she thought of it. So Nita had told her. Actually, she had told Joanne what she thought of her. The bike was all right. In fact, it had been almost exactly the one that Nita had wanted so much for her last birthday — the birthday when she got nothing but clothes. Life can be really rotten sometimes, Nita thought. She wasn't really so irritated about that at the moment, however. Running away from a beating was taking up most of her attention. "Callahan, " came a yell from behind her, "I'm gonna pound you up and mail you home in bottles!"

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