“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).
“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!”
″‘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.”