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PETER'S SPECIAL FATHER'S DAY GIFT

Peter knew that Father's Day was just a month away. He wanted to buy his father a new hammer and was trying to figure out how to get the money for it. But when you are nine years old, earning money is not always easy. He got an allowance every week for helping with the household chores, but he had done some calculations and knew that he would not have enough for the hammer by Father's Day.

It was his grandmother who gave him the idea of collecting bottles and getting the deposit money back. That should be easy enough, Peter thought. He searched the woods, the ditches, and around the park for a week, but he found very few bottles. People must be saving them/or themselves, Peter thought. He was sulking about this when his father peeked into his bedroom.

"Why so glum, chum?" asked Peter's father, Ralph.