THE YOUNG AND PRODIGIOUS T.S. SPIVET( short 05/50 )

If you finish before I get back, count the number of good ears and the number of bad ones.

Why don't get the kernels, while you're at it?

I had 3 options to get to the phone.

The corridor / kitchen way, the quickest but also the most boring.

Upstairs /Downstairs route, but the shift in altitude made me nauseous.

I opted for the third and riskiest, particularly when father was working around the house.

The scent in the room smelled like whiskey-stained leather. and mouldy photographs.

If you just closed your eyes, you could feel the dust forming onto your prairie after a cowboy posse cavalcade.

Layton use this thing as setting room,was the greatest thing since quirrell trees.

Hello?

Hello, yes, uh... I would like to speak to T.S. Spivet, this is Miss Jibsen,

Under Secretary of the Smithsonian.

Hold on. Father! Phone!

scent

The air was filled with the scent of wild flowers.

These flowers have no scent.

option (of doing sth) | ~ (to do sth)

As I see it, we have two options...

There are various options open to you.

shift (in sth)

a dramatic shift in public opinion

a shift of emphasis

stain (sth) (with sth)

I hope it doesn't stain the carpet.

Hold on a minute while I get my breath back.