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He knew what it felt like to be a girl.
And now he knew the real difference between girls and boys. The secret difference!
He knew the one secret thing boys didn’t understand about girls.
And he knew the one secret thing girls didn’t understand about boys.
It was really very simple. The secret difference between girls and boys was—
Suddenly his foot slipped. He fell off the spiderweb.
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Caught in the Web
But he never hit the ground.
Marvin found himself hanging upside down by his knees.
Just like Judy Jasper.
He let himself hang there a moment. It felt good.
Besides, he wasn’t sure how to get free without falling the rest of the way.
“Hey, Marvin!” called Nick. “How’d you do that?”
“Marvin, are you all right?” called Mrs. North.
“I think so,” he said.
He tried to get back up. He swung by his knees, reached out, and grabbed the web with one hand.
He wove his arm in and out of the web to get a good grip. Then he slowly freed one leg.
“Careful,” said Mrs. North.
He pulled on the web with his free hand.
The next thing he knew, his elbow jerked almost to his mouth.
He pulled the web again.
Again his elbow jerked toward his mouth.
He pulled, then kept on pulling.
His elbow moved closer. It felt like his arm was breaking.
He stretched out his lips.
“What are you doing, Marvin?” Stuart called up to him.
It felt like his shoulder was about to pop out.
He gave it one hard yank!
The next thing he knew, he was falling headfirst toward the ground.
