He smiled and stretched and sniffed the morning. The uncles' ages each contained two numbers, and now Jim's age contained two numbers as well. The extra number had weight, like a muscle, and Jim hefted it like a prize. He was nine years old when he went to sleep, but ten years old when he woke up. Washburn's title if he had been able to think of a better one of his own.ĭ URING THE night something like a miracle happened: Jim's age grew an extra digit. Washburn's family to know that he would not have used Mr. The tide Jim the Boy was appropriated from a book of that name, published by Jim Washburn of Lake Lure, North Carolina, in 1952.

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Jim the Boy by Tony Earley