KATIE AND GULLIVER
“KEE-AAH! KEE-AAH! KEE-AAH!
“Gulliver’s back!”
Katie’s first morning at Uncle Ralph’s Seaview Resort was always the same. When she and her dad arrived, the huge one-legged gull showed up, too. On the day they left for home, Gulliver disappeared as well.
“It’s amazing,” Uncle Ralph said. “I’d swear that bird knows your holiday plans.”
It had happened every summer . . . until now.
Katie waited for Gulliver’s familiar, raucous wake-up call. Instead, she heard sparrows arguing in the bushes beside the cottages. She heard fishing boats chugging away in the morning mist. She heard wavelets slurp-slop under the wooden docks. She didn’t hear Gulliver.
“Maybe he missed the ferry,” Dad teased.
“I bet he found a new girlfriend,”
