{"id":"01KG07DPX829P3HTEAJNXADVQJ","cid":"bafkreic5hg5m4vk23lach4qyrhwlazpfpd53qunn22hqmpofqryt5tglfq","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":5281,"extracted_at":"2026-01-27T17:18:35.113Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 18","source_file":"01KFYTG9MG93RTB6YAW34V48XG","start_line":5235,"text":"  5012\tsee across the street and I couldn't see where the hell she was. But when we got to the\n  5013\tzoo, I yelled over to her, \"Phoebe! I'm going in the zoo! C'mon, now!\" She wouldn't look\n  5014\tat me, but I could tell she heard me, and when I started down the steps to the zoo I turned\n  5015\taround and saw she was crossing the street and following me and all.\n  5016\tThere weren't too many people in the zoo because it was sort of a lousy day, but\n  5017\tthere were a few around the sea lions' swimming pool and all. I started to go by but old\n  5018\tPhoebe stopped and made out she was watching the sea lions getting fed--a guy was\n  5019\tthrowing fish at them--so I went back. I figured it was a good chance to catch up with her\n  5020\tand all. I went up and sort of stood behind her and sort of put my hands on her shoulders,\n  5021\tbut she bent her knees and slid out from me--she can certainly be very snotty when she\n  5022\twants to. She kept standing there while the sea lions were getting fed and I stood right\n  5023\tbehind her. I didn't put my hands on her shoulders again or anything because if I had she\n  5024\treally would've beat it on me. Kids are funny. You have to watch what you're doing.\n  5025\tShe wouldn't walk right next to me when we left the sea lions, but she didn't walk\n  5026\ttoo far away. She sort of walked on one side of the sidewalk and I walked on the other\n  5027\tside. It wasn't too gorgeous, but it was better than having her walk about a mile away\n  5028\tfrom me, like before. We went up and watched the bears, on that little hill, for a while,\n\n<!-- [Page 113](arke:01KFYTAMRNTRCKT4PQDND70P8E) -->\n  5029\tbut there wasn't much to watch. Only one of the bears was out, the polar bear. The other\n  5030\tone, the brown one, was in his goddam cave and wouldn't come out. All you could see\n  5031\twas his rear end. There was a little kid standing next to me, with a cowboy hat on\n  5032\tpractically over his ears, and he kept telling his father, \"Make him come out, Daddy.\n  5033\tMake him come out.\" I looked at old Phoebe, but she wouldn't laugh. You know kids\n  5034\twhen they're sore at you. They won't laugh or anything.\n  5035\tAfter we left the bears, we left the zoo and crossed over this little street in the\n  5036\tpark, and then we went through one of those little tunnels that always smell from\n  5037\tsomebody's taking a leak. It was on the way to the carrousel. Old Phoebe still wouldn't\n  5038\ttalk to me or anything, but she was sort of walking next to me now. I took a hold of the\n  5039\tbelt at the back of her coat, just for the hell of it, but she wouldn't let me. She said, \"Keep\n  5040\tyour hands to yourself, if you don't mind.\" She was still sore at me. But not as sore as she\n  5041\twas before. Anyway, we kept getting closer and closer to the carrousel and you could\n  5042\tstart to hear that nutty music it always plays. It was playing \"Oh, Marie!\" It played that\n  5043\tsame song about fifty years ago when I was a little kid. That's one nice thing about\n  5044\tcarrousels, they always play the same songs.\n  5045\t\"I thought the carrousel was closed in the wintertime,\" old Phoebe said. It was the\n  5046\tfirst time she practically said anything. She probably forgot she was supposed to be sore\n  5047\tat me.\n  5048\t\"Maybe because it's around Christmas,\" I said.\n  5049\tShe didn't say anything when I said that. She probably remembered she was\n  5050\tsupposed to be sore at me.\n  5051\t\"Do you want to go for a ride on it?\" I said. I knew she probably did. When she\n  5052\twas a tiny little kid, and Allie and D.B. and I used to go to the park with her, she was\n  5053\tmad about the carrousel. You couldn't get her off the goddam thing.\n  5054\t\"I'm too big.\" she said. I thought she wasn't going to answer me, but she did.\n  5055\t\"No, you're not. Go on. I'll wait for ya. Go on,\" I said. We were right there then.\n  5056\tThere were a few kids riding on it, mostly very little kids, and a few parents were waiting","title":"Chunk 18"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG0725KRV1Y3Q27GR0RPHVES","peer_label":"24","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KFXT0KM64XT6K8W52TDEE0YS","peer_label":"More Classics","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":1,"created_at":"2026-01-27T17:18:35.571Z","ts":"2026-01-27T17:18:35.571Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}