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Satchmo Jenkins
Ms. Adams was a strange older lady who lived in Satchmo’s old neighborhood. Unlike most old ladies, she wasn’t friendly—she never asked kids about their parents, and she had a mean rottweiler, Brutus, whom she kept chained in her yard. She could often be seen chewing tobacco in her window and yelling at kids to get off her grass. There were rumors that she mixed her tobacco slime in with Brutus’s food to make him even meaner.
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Ms. Adams Character Timeline in Look Both Ways
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7. Satchmo’s Master Plan
...that time. Clancy threw the football and Satchmo stretched for it, but it bounced into Ms. Adams ’s yard anyway. Her chained-up rottweiler, Brutus, leapt for the ball, tail wagging, and tried...
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Clancy told Satchmo to get the ball quick, before Ms. Adams saw him. She’s an older lady who sits in her window and yells at kids...
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But on that day, Clancy shook his head at Satchmo— Ms. Adams wasn’t in the window. Satchmo hurried into Brutus’s yard, greeting the dog in a whisper....
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