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HOT-AIR
HENRY t^NaryCalhoun
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illustrated IqrEricklngraham
MULBERRY BOOKS • New York
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Text cop>Tigh(
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1981 by
lllustraiions copyright
©
Mary Calhoun Enck Ingraham
1981 hy
All rights reserved.
No part of this hook may he reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photiKopying,
recording or hy any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in wTiting from the Publisher. Inquiries should he addressed to William Morrow and &)mpany. Inc.. 105 Madjstin Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016.
Printed in the United States of America. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Calhoun, Mary.
Summary:
Hot-air Henry.
A sassy Siamese cat stows away on a hot-air balloon
and ends up taking a (1. I.
Cats
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Ingraham, Enck.
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fiir-raising flight across
Fiction. 2. Hot-air balloons II.
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the mountaiiu.
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Title.
80-26189
ISBN 0-688-04068-3
Mulberry Edition
To Hot-Air Michael with hean-felt thanks
(pbk.
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Tlie big bird circled the
Henrv xv'atched
fat
contraption.
aaxiouslv.
That eagle better not peck a hole in his balloon! 'Snaa!" 'Scat!
Henrv hissed.
Get away from
tliere!"
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He made the burner roar. "Help!" squalled the eagle.
"What a
cat,
to roar like that!"
The eagle winged away from the fearsome feline.'
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Henry spared
»/ t'
.V
a
paw to smooth
his whiskers. •
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Then he peered down, narrowing his
'
at
the brightness of the snow.
Below on a road was
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a truck,
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'Hey, cat!"
The Kids shout made Henry look. The basket was headed for
some high-strung power lines.
At last
he d found Colson
Hill.
He had to fire the burner to lift quickly, or he d sizzle on the wires.
But the goose guarded the burner cord.
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Henry started toward the goose, 'Hiss!"
"Snaaa!"
answered the goose, hunching
its
wings.
Henry had never fought a goose, and he
didn't like to try for the first time
while balancing like a tightrope walker.
But he had to
fire
the burner!
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Henry sprang. Over the gooses head he leaped, onto the gooses back, and clawed
at
the cor(
As Henr\' flew over, a sharp nip of a beak
on
his
tail
made him
y6wl.
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But when the burner boomed,
\
the goose
jumped
And Henry fell
into the
off its
air.
back- into the
which soared up over the power
basket,
lines.
Henry licked his throbbing tail, while the geese regrouped and flew on. "Honk, honk."
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Then Henry pulled the to bring die basket
rip
down.
The basket bounced once over Henry hung on
-^^^^
cord
The Kid and The Man jumped out of die
as
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die
truck.
snow toward them,
to die air-spilling cord.
The Man grabbed the
dragline, dien the basket.
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"Mew." Henry drooped against a post.
The Man might be mad for
going
off with
at
him
the balloon.
Henry leaned his head on The Man's "Purr-mew!" he begged pardon for soloing sooner than The Man.
chest.
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some high-flying cat!" saidThe Kid, punching down balloon cloth.
'Wow,
'Pun-mew!" said Henrv, smoothinsThe Mans
Wise old
flying cat.
chest.
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