WORD PUZZLE #6 from THE SAVING LIGHT
MAY/JUN 2007 Chapter One: Multiple Personalities
Read the story passage at the bottom and try to find the twelve underlined words or phrases in
the letter grid below. The answers can be up, down, left, right or diagonal. Good luck!
Y Y B D U Z R O S R M K D C L
L W G J V E N I R A G R A M F
F R X I A H H A N P U I G M L
I I C C E E T P G D Z Y N K P
S A H A T A V B B W F H O R J
H E O T E W H N D X R Y R O O
D H G C G E M N A S Q F W C M
S T T H Y E O Y L E I H L N B
E O W Z E S T H S G T T I O N
A T J D A D O C T B D S P V W
C N O E M T A M T E A S E D S
T I R E P P T T V A K L C H I
O O V M E F N A L T U Y Y W O
B R S M R O W H T R A E X F L
K L B T H R O W I T I N I A V
The young girl aimed a flashlight into the grass, reached down and picked up one of the biggest earthworms she
had ever seen, dangling it into the air like a prized trophy. She waved it in front of her brother’s face, causing him to
flinch.
“Ooooo! Scared of a wittle wittle wormy?” she teased.
“Just scared of you,” her brother replied with a grunt.
“I’m just glad both of you aren’t going to the lake fishing with me on Saturday,” their father replied. “You’d frighten
away all the fish!”
“Very funny!” his daughter replied, still holding up the worm. “Well, this one ought to catch you a whopper!”
Her brother removed the hole-poked cover off an old margarine tub and held out the container filled with a dozen
worms and some soil. “Throw it in with the others.”
As the girl extended her hand through the air to drop the worm into the bowl, Belthasar panicked, his body flailing
like a streamer caught on a wire. Fishing! Covered container! What were they going to do with him? Belthasar knew
he had to escape this undignified fate or else all would be lost–but something was wrong. His spirit was trapped,
paralyzed inside this revolting worm. For some reason he couldn’t pass into the girl as he helplessly dangled above
the grass–and now above a container of worms slithering over and under each other like a brood of snakes. This
couldn’t be happening!
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