To punish Ribsy, Ramona steals his bone and locks it in her lunch box. Henry goes to Beezus and Ramona’s house to play checkers, but the game is ruined when Ribsy eats Ramona’s ice cream cone. He ties a string to them and lets Ribsy run until the teeth land on the grass. After much discussion about the best way to get rid of his loose teeth, Henry decides to let Ribsy do the pulling. The joke is on Scooter and Robert, though, when their mothers buy electric clippers and give them awful haircuts, too. But the boys snatch the hat off his head when he’s not looking and make fun of him. He tries to divert his friends’ attention from his hat by talking about ways to pull out his two loose teeth. When the haircut is over, Henry is so embarrassed that he insists on wearing a sailor hat everywhere he goes. Henry worries that his mother won’t do a good job, but she promises that she watched how a barber did it and knows exactly what to do. Huggins buys a pair of electric clippers so she can cut Henry’s and his father’s hair. Henry is given the chore of clipping the edge of the lawn to earn the extra 15 cents a week. Huggins solves the problem by taking the garbage out as she used to do. When Ribsy won’t allow Scooter near Henry’s bicycle, the boys realize that Ribsy has been guarding the trash, just like he is guarding Henry’s bike. No one can figure out why Ribsy won’t allow the garbage men near the trash, and Henry is afraid his dad won’t take him fishing because Ribsy is causing so much trouble. He does his job dutifully every day, but when the truck comes to pick up the garbage, Ribsy barks at the men so fiercely that they refuse to empty the cans. Henry doesn’t like the idea of being in charge of smelly garbage but is glad for the chance to make extra money. Huggins offers to raise Henry’s allowance 15 cents a week if he will begin taking out the garbage every day. He promises to take Henry salmon fishing if Henry can keep Ribsy out of trouble until the middle of September.
Huggins pays the policeman for the lunch and tells Henry that he is tired of people complaining about Ribsy. Ribsy jumps into the open door, steals a paper bag with the policeman’s lunch inside and eats it. Huggins announces that it’s time to take the car in for an oil change, Henry and his dog, Ribsy, tag along.Ī police car pulls into the station. Henry Huggins doesn’t have much to do during the summer.
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