Butternut Street

By John E. Tyo

Butternut Street tells the story of an eccentric but delightfully lighthearted inventor who moves into a house next to one occupied by two young children, their parents and their kitties. The inventor turns to the children with a twinkle in his eye for their ideas in solving problems with his flummox machine. With their parents' permission, they

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rushmore Press LLC
• Release date: May 25, 2022
• ISBN: 9781957943480

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ISBN 978-1-957943-47-3 (paperback)

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Copyright © 2022 by John E. Tyo

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Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

CHAPTER ONE

Butternut Street

Once upon a time, in a small town called Gremlin’s Notch, there was a quiet street called Butternut Street. It was told that the name Gremlin’s Notch came from a notch in the mountains that surrounded the town. So, the story went. Many, many years ago, gremlins had carved a notch in the mountains, so they could scurry over them to their hiding places. Whether or not that was true, the notch was still there, even if the gremlins weren’t, and you could see it from Butternut Street.

Butternut Street was named after Butternut trees, which grew on the hillsides near the edge of town. They were smaller than many trees are but lived sometimes to seventy-five years of age, which is about as old as some grandpas and grandmas! They produced small white walnuts which people would sometimes eat, and they were called butternuts.

Well, anyway, Butternut Street was a quiet street about ten blocks off the main highway that ran through the town.

At Number Twenty-Four Butternut Street lived the Wilson family, Father Wilbur Wilson, Mother Winnie Wilson, and their two children, Jim and Jane Wilson.

Oh, and there were also two kitties because there are almost always two kitties in stories like this. The kitties’ names were Tucker and Wiggles.

Tucker was a boy kitty who had wandered into the Wilson’s