had destabilized the tower of junk that lurked in his closet in the same way that a suspiciously clean mountainside of snow waits for just one out of place yodel. In much the same way as the aforementioned snow reacts to that yodel, the pile slowly bent over in order to get the maximum terror out of its victim before striking. This behavior is commonly observed in too high piles across the globe. There was a tremendous crash as the pile struck the floor, followed by several smaller crashes as other piles, wanting to join in on the fun, collapsed as well. There were a few strange squishing noises and finally one last isolated boing, the mechanical equivalent of a pair of smoking books.
There was no movement for several seconds, and then Jacob pushed his way out of the pile. He held the miraculously unbroken microscope under his arm. After trying for several minutes in a futile attempt to clean up the mess, he went back up to his room to try it out. After trying out three different magnification levels, he decided on the one that looked the least blurry. He looked at the first dot. It showed what looked like a paragraph of words. As he zoomed in he saw the words:“ The village board of Byrite approves the land deed of 4210 Woodthorn Road to Arnold and Amy Courgeth.” Jacob flew backwards from the microscope in shock.
This was the land deed to his house! He started to rush downstairs to tell his parents, but stopped. Jacob realized that the way to solve this was not by letting his parents do the stupid thing and tell the police. Sneaky Mr. Esell would probably wiggle his way out of this. He remembered that the microdot had shown only the land deed to his house. Jacob rushed back to see if there were any other deeds on the sheet. He frantically scrolled through all of them. There were no others. Jacob looked through his memory and remembered that his parents had told him that the company had bought the land and houses of his friends as well as his. There must be one penny for each of us! Mr. Esell had one, he may have the others. I need to go to the Arelly’ s house! Jacob
dashed to their house and saw that Mr. Esell had just gone inside the house. Jacob rushed to the back door and caught John reading the Principles of Mathematics while enjoying the summer air.
“ John, John!” Jacob waved to him,“ I need to tell you something!” John sighed and reluctantly put away his book.
“ What do you want Jacob?” John said tiredly,“ Why do you always have to be around me?”
“ There is no time,” Jacob said quickly,“ Listen to what I am saying.” Jacob explained everything he had learned to John.“ Now, I want you to stay here while