By: Rodman Philbrick

Beginning His name is Homer and he lies a lot and his

parents died his dad died from getting crushed by a tree his mom died from sickness. now he lives with his only family squint. He hates everything from the sky to president Lincoln. One day his brother

Gets shipped into the army but he is not the right age and homer wants to go with his brother Harold. But he can’t go. So that night he escapes with Bob the horse and he is off to catch his brother before he gets to war .

Middle On the way there he meets some bad guys and

he is captured he lies to them he says his uncle is rich parson lee is there to smelt and stink make him go to a rich persons house to find out where the slaves are hidden he goes and gets fed he goes back into the forest and tells a lie were there hiding they chain him up and goes to the mine parson lee escapes

and hits stink and smelt with a iron rod they escape in a wagon.

EndHe goes and tries to find his brother by doing

medicine shows but still can’t find his brother then one day he escapes from being arrested in a hot air balloon he floats over to the rebel territory and lies he is on there side he steals a horse and rides to union side and finds his brother he is a mutineer and has a big M on his uniform it gets dusted off because they need more people to fight so homer helps out the army by giving people ammo he shots his brother in the foot they win the war and they have to cut Harold's lim off.

Characters Homer CorneliusHarold JT martson

Squint and moreStink Smelt Mr. BrewsterCaption leeMr. willowKate

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