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July 6,

What a day! Mabel made a bet with Stan and he's been left in charge of the Mystery Shack (ridiculous but true).

He asked me to find a legit attraction for Graunty Mabel's tour- AND I DID!! I went to a spooky-looking part of the forest and built one of those tiger traps. It wasn't long before I caught something. Only one small hiccup-

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I didn't dig the hole deep enough. I thought I'd catch a gnome or troll. The biggest I'd planned for was about werewolf size. I'd never have guessed I'd catch the very beast that almost defeated the Author- the GREMLOBLIN!

I slowly lowered my sack over its enormous head and the monster immediately fell asleep. (I've seen Mabel use this trick on Ria, too. Put a blanket over Ria's eyes and she instantly falls asleep, like a parakeet. True story.)

I tied one end of a rope around the sack and the other to the back of the golf cart. I dragged it out of the hole and back to the Shack.

YES!! Finally! Stanford Pines: Monster Hunter Supreme!! If only Mabel was here to see that I actually caught something other than a cold for once. I̶ ̶w̶o̶n̶d̶e̶r̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶A̶u̶t̶h̶o̶r̶ ̶w̶o̶u̶l̶d̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶i̶m̶p̶r̶e̶s̶s̶e̶d̶.̶

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