3 Back at the Lab

CHAPTER THREE BACK AT THE LAB Back at the lab Franny thought about what her presentation would be. Fortunately Franny had an assistant to help her with things like this.

Igor was Franny's dog and lab assistant. (He wasn't a pure Lab. He was also part poodle, part Chihuahua, part beagle, part spaniel, part shepherd, and part some kind of weasly thing that wasn't even exactly a dog.)

Franny had told Igor about Miss Shelly's assignment, and he was doing his best to make suggestions.

He reminded her of the time she had brought a garden gnome to life and they'd had to stay locked in the bathroom until the police came. Igor thought the kids would like that. "I don't want to take in a garden gnome," she said.

He reminded her of the time she had increased the vacuum cleaner's power and had sucked her little brother inside out.

"Mom made me promise never to do that again," she said. He reminded her of the time she had engineered a cannibalistic hot dog that actually ate itself.