Lulu needed to get back home, or else she’d be late for school. But she also needed to bring the dogs back to their owners. “I can do that,” said Fleischman. “I don’t have school today. They’re giving me the day off because I’m so smart.”

Lulu knew she should thank him, but she really, really, really wanted to stomp him. Wouldn’t you?

Still, as Fleischman went off with Cordelia and Pookie and Brutus, and Lulu pulled up her socks and hurried home, she forgot about all the difficulties of the morning and thought about all the money she’d already earned. Which inspired her to sing a money song.

(Lulu thinks it’s okay to use the name “Glor” to rhyme with “drawer” because, she says, Glor is a nickname for Gloria. I’m not so sure.)

After school on Monday, Lulu remembered all the difficulties of the morning and decided she’d have to SPEND some money to make some. She went to the market and bought the cheapest dog biscuits she could find. She went to the toy store and bought, for only sixty-nine cents plus tax, a plastic toy flute. And then she went to the library and took out, from the language section, an easy-looking book called Beginner’s German. She figured it wouldn’t take much to learn what she needed to learn to make the dogs behave. She figured that she would do just fine without Fleischman.