Four Dollars and Fifty Cents

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Four Dollars and Fifty Cents

• By Eric A. Kimmel
• Corby Arthur
• Beethoven Street Elementary School
• Third Grade

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blacksmith noun pg 58
a person who makes objects from iron, which is
heated and then hammered to make the desired
shape.
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He owed everybody money, from Big Oscar the
blacksmith to Widow Macrae, who ran the Silver
Dollar Café and baked the best biscuits west of
the Rockies. My grandpa told me that he used to
get shoes for his workhorse from a blacksmith.
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collecting pg 58
getting payment for a debt
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You got as much chance of collecting that money
as seeing Custer ride back from Little
Bighorn. The paperboy is collecting money for
last months newspapers.
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decent adjective pg 60
proper, respectable, acceptable to the community
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But if you let me take Shorty back to town, Ill
see that he gets a decent burial. Telling him
that I was sorry for being rude was the only
decent thing to do.
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volunteered verb pg 61
offered to do
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Ill nail the lid down, Duck Pooley
volunteered. Half the class volunteered at the
local animal shelter.
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determined verb pg 62
firm, unwilling to change stubbornly continued
as planned
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Shorty saw stars when the coffin hit the ground,
but he was bound and determined not to pay that
four dollars and fifty cents, so he lay
still. Even though the snow was cold and wet,
the little boy was determined to keep sledding.