Call Me Francis Tucket
By: Gary Paulson
This book is
a great book it is in the Tucket Travel’s series this is the second book in the
series and it is carried on from the book Mr. Tucket. In this book Francis and
Mr. Grimes head way up into the mountains and trap beaver all winter and the
limit Mr. Grimes set was two hundred beaver because that was all the weight that the
horses could pack.
After two
weeks of dawn till dusk work Francis and Mr. Grimes had gotten their limit of
two hundred beavers. The next two days they skinned the beavers and stretched the skins
also. The next week Francis was in the house and looked at the trail and saw a
pair of pack horses when they thought that their trail was covered but Mr.
Grimes was out stacking and chopping wood, Francis drew his rifle and yelled
stop. And was they figured out who it was they were no longer a threat. It was
Mr. Grimes’s old friend Jim Bridger.
After the winter they ride to one of Mr.
Grimes’s friend’s house and when they get about a mile away they see a lot of
smoke coming over the ridge of spot johnnies. When they start riding a little
faster to see what the smoke was. When they got over the hill they saw spot Johnnies,
but there was one problem, spot Johnnies and the whole town was on fire and
there was multiple bodies lying on the ground. When they saw what had happened they
ran their horses at full speed. When Mr. Grimes see’s a wagon train he takes
Francis to them and tells Francis to stay while he goes after Braid the Pawnee
leader that Mr. Grimes just knew that it had to have been him.
About an
hour after Mr. Grimes left Francis snuck out of camp and went after Mr. Grimes
to go help him kill Braid. Francis rode as hard and as fast as he could, when
he finally reached the peak of the gully he saw Mr. Grimes and Braid circling
each other, then they drew their rifles and shot. What Francis had just
witnessed was the two men falling off their horses and both murdered in cold
blood.
I remember reading this book in Elementary as a class. It is such a great book. Good Job
ReplyDeleteI think you did pretty well, especially with the amount of detail, but their is so much more to explain. What I mean is that, the whole series is so much more than what someone can fit into a page on the internet.
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