Seconds later, Trixie stepped gingerly onto the platform floor of Bobby’s new treehouse, all the while wondering how much experience Regan had with building work and whether, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, he had a reckless streak that would allow him to actually do this for her brother, who could get into trouble all by himself in an empty room, an unfortunate trait which she herself shared.
Original sentence, day 2, sentence 2: Seconds later, Trixie stepped gingerly onto the platform floor of Bobby’s treehouse.
Source: The Mystery of the Phantom Grasshopper (p. 35, cream oval).
Trixie ran down the hill, hurrying home from cleaning the clubhouse, but stopped short at the base of the enormous old tree at the edge of their yard and looked up as something unusual caught her attention, eyes widening to see her almost-twin, dangling by his knees from one of the lower branches and holding a banana, while two branches higher Bobby did the same and said hopefully, “Ook, ook.”
Original sentence, day 12, sentence 2: Trixie stopped at the base of the tree and looked up.
Source: The Mystery of the Phantom Grasshopper (p. 194, cream oval).
One minute, ten-year-old Mart was soaring from the banister, performing the most daring of flips, his safe landing assured by the enormous pile of pillows he had amassed, by stealing them from every room in the house; the next thing he knew, he awoke in hospital, one of his eyes was bruised and swollen almost shut, his head hurt and he wore two bandages on the side of his face.
Original sentence: One of his eyes was bruised and swollen almost shut, and he wore two
bandages on the side of his face.
Source: The Mystery of the Phantom Grasshopper (p.126, cream oval).
