However, this week Mrs.However, this week Mrs. Edwards had gone away for a holiday and it was a relatively simple process for the boys to convince Mr. Edwards that they would do their chores in the afternoon. So after breakfast the boys went out to play baseball. Rafael liked playing baseball but he wasn't that good at it, not like some of the other boys. He was an 'okay' pitcher but when it came time to hit there was no way he could keep up with the bigger boys. The problem that Thursday morning was that he couldn't find his mitt. The mitt was his Christmas present, the only present he had received at Christmas. It was one of the few things that he owned. The boy searched his room. He expected to find it in his locker where it always was, but it wasn't there. |