The three Baudelaire children lived with
their parents in a huge, stone house at the
heart of a dirty city, and their parents often
let them go to the beach alone. That
morning, it was grey and cloudy, which
didn't bother the Baudelaire youngsters one
bit. Violet Baudelaire, a clever 14-year-old
girl, liked to skip big rocks. Klaus
Baudelaire, the middle child and the only
boy, liked to look for crabs, starfish and old
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things. His steel-rimmed glasses made him
look intelligent. He was intelligent. Sunny
Baudelaire, the youngest, liked to bite
things. She was tiny, scarcely larger that a
boot. She used few real words like bottle,
mommy and bite. This morning she was
saying ‘Gack!’ over and over which
probably meant, ‘Look at that mysterious
figure!
Adapted from Lemony Snicket's A Series of
Unfortunate Events - The Bad Beginning
(2005 Harper Collins Publishers)
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