Chapter 19WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM
Every October, the high school seniors collected the dead wood from Hawks Bluff Park and made an enormous bonfire for the pep rally the night before the homecoming football game. Then they ceremoniously burned an effigy of the Stilton Buffaloes, their rival team.
The day before the pep rally, Ivy and her friends loaded branches onto a lowboy wagon pulled by Reuben’s tractor. When it was full, they drove it to an empty lot next to the football field at Hawks Bluff Park and dumped it.
Nick threw a huge branch on the growing pile of wood. “I’ve decided we’re not making a dummy this year. We’re going to get Luther Matthews to steal the Stilton Buffalo for us.”
The Stilton mascot, a real stuffed buffalo, stood on the stage in the Stilton school gym. The huge
