″‘It’s about those owls.’
‘Sure.’
‘What’s gonna happen to them?’ Officer Delinko asked. ‘Once you start bulldozing, I mean.’
Curly the foreman chuckled. He thought the policeman must be kidding.
‘What owls?’ he said.”
“Glory! Glory! And the enormous dragon, the bulldozer breathing smoke and pushing the great gums over- wandering about wherever it liked roaring and bellowing like a- well, like a bulldozer... you had to love Terkie a little bit for letting you see all that!”
“Beezus read on through Scoopy’s failure to be a bulldozer. She read about Scoopy’s wanting to be a trolley bus (‘Beed-beep,” honked Ramona) a locomotive (‘A-hooey, a-hooey,’ wailed Ramona}, and a pile driver (‘Chunk! Chunk!’ shouted Ramona).