Fauntleroy Boys

Smoking Cap Guns . . .We would draw our six-shooter when the bad guys came on the screen, and shoot at them. In a very short time you could see the smoke from the caps rise up through the lights of the projector. The noise and smell of exploding caps made us feel as though we were part of the movie.Little Jim . . .I loved to torment Jim and on many occasions I made his life miserable. But Mother Nature has a way of keeping everything in balance. One on hand she had short changed Jim in the height and weight department but she had seen fit to bestow on Jim an agile, scheming and deviant mind. Jim's mind was more than a match for my brawn and he proved it on a beautiful spring day.A Junker . . .Most wrecking yards would have a row of cars out front that ran and were for sale. None of the Junkers would be much to look at but they were cheap. The paint would be oxidized and there would be little white cloudy spots in the glass and the tires would be bald. The clutch pedal had to come out all the way from the floor before it would catch. You would be lucky if you would have any brake pads at all. The front end would wobble anytime you got over 30MPH. Mt first Junker was a twenty-five dollar dark green 1948 Pontiac.Whalen, John is the author of 'Fauntleroy Boys', published 2003 under ISBN 9781401085902 and ISBN 1401085903.