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Sample Chapter Summaries
Chapter 1 - The Daffodil Massacre March 15, 1986 It all started when a truck backed up and hit a pushcart. The pushcart was owned by Morris the Florist and his flowers went everywhere. The pushcart was flattened. Mack, of Mammoth Moving company, was the driver of the truck. The events were captured on film by a boy named Marvin Seely.
Chapter 2 - The Blow-up of Marvin Seeley's Picture Marvin Seely was trying to take a picture of a pickle barrel. Just as Marvin was taking a picture, Morris the Florist fell in it. Marvin's picture was published ina newspaper and Fedds Wizard, newspaper editor, saw it and enlarged it to life size. He saw Mack the truck driver in a Daddy truck, then he saw Morris the Florist. He could tell from the picture that the pushcart belonged to Morris the Florist.
Chapter 3 - More About Morris the florist and A Little About Frank the Flower and Maxie Hammerman, the Pushcart King At the time of the pushcart war, Morris the florist had been in the flower line for 43 years. If a customer asked Morris for a dozen tulips, daffodils or snapdragons, Morris would always wrap up thirteen small flowers, the extra was free. Every year there were more automobiles, more taxis, more buses, and especially more trucks. By the summer of the pushcart war, there were more trucks in New York than any place in the world. Morris' license number is "X-105." "East of Tompkins Square, north to 14th, and South Delancey," Maxie would always run over his license list in his head. |