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40 - Beaver's Poem
When Beaver asks his father for help with writing a poem, Ward
gets carried away and writes the whole thing for him. Beaver
gets in trouble at school because the teacher knows Beaver didn't
write it. She gives him another chance and he writes his own
poem and hands it in.
41 - Lost Watch
When the town bully Lumpy accuses Beaver of stealing his watch,
Beaver gets scared that he might go to jail and takes out $25
from his savings account to replace the watch that he didn't
steal. He hopes his parents won't find out, but they do and
handle the situation.
42 - Eddie's Girl
Eddie's so-called girl Caroline Cunningham falls for Wally the
first time she sees him. She asks Wally to the school dance,
but he refuses to go because she is his best friend's girl.
However, June makes a mess of things when she tells Caroline's
mother that Wally will in fact go with her to the dance.
43 - Ward's Problem
Ward gets himself in trouble with the boys when he promises
Wally that he will go on a fishing trip with him, but also promises
Beaver that he will go to the father-son school picnic which
takes place on the same day.
44 - Beaver and Chuey
Beaver has a new friend named Chuey Varela who only speaks Spanish.
Beaver goes to Eddie to help him since since Eddie took Spanish
in school, but Eddie plays a mean joke on Beaver. Instead of
telling Beaver nice things to say to his friend, Eddie tells
Beaver how to say "you have the face of a pig" to
his new friend Chuey.
45 - Her Idol
Beaver's friends make fun of him when they spot him climbing
a tree with Linda Dennison, a girl in one of his classes.
46 - Beaver's Ring
Aunt Martha gives Beaver a family heirloom ring which he is
told not to wear to school. Instead of wearing it on his finger,
he ties it to a string and wears it around his belt loop. It
eventually gets on his finger and becomes stuck, and Wally tells
Beaver the only way to get it off is to cut his finger off.
47 - The Shave
Wally is upset because he feels he is the only boy in school
who isn't shaving yet. After he attempts to shave himself and
nicks his own face, his father yells at him telling Wally that
it is unhealthy to shave every day. Ward thinks this will discourage
Wally from wanting to shave, but it actually encourages him.
48 - The Pipe
Larry and Beaver find an antique pipe and decide to smoke it,
even though they aren't supposed to smoke until they are 21.
Since they have no tobacco, they fill the pipe with coffee grounds
and make a mess of the pipe. After all this has happened, they
allow Wally to take the blame for what they did, but they finally
confess.
49 - Wally's New Suit
Wally convinces his parents to let him go to the Prep Shop to
buy a new suit for himself, and his parents regret the decision
when he comes home with a loud plaid suit with a lot of pockets
on it.
50 - School Play
Beaver is excited to learn that he will be playing the part
of the yellow canary in the third grade school play. However,
the night of the performance, Beaver gets a bad case of stage
fright because his family has been teasing him by saying that
he will forget his lines.
51 - The Visiting Aunts
The boys plan to attend the carnival in town, but their plan
has to change when they learn that Aunt Martha is coming for
lunch. Now they fear they will never make it to the carnival
because it seems like she will never leave.
52 - Happy Weekend
Ward takes the family camping for the weekend at Shadow Lake.
The boys would rather stay home and watch the new movie "Jungle
Fever", but Ward insists they will all have fun camping.
Ward becomes upset with the boys when he learns that they have
left the campsite to go see the movie after all.
53 - Wally's Present
Beaver originally was going to buy Wally a camera for $6.50
, but instead becomes selfish and buys a bow and arrow set for
himself.
54 - The Grass Is Always Greener
Beaver and Wally learn a valuable lesson which is to not take
what they have for granted after they become friends with two
young boys who have less than they do.
55 - The Boat Builders
A few of the neighborhood boys build a boat and bring it to
Miller's Pond where they decide to see how it floats. Only Beaver
fits in the boat, and after they send him off in it, it capsizes.
56 - Beaver Plays Hooky
Larry and Beaver are late for school for the third time in one
week. They are afraid of Miss Landers, their teacher, so instead
of going late, they skip school altogether. They soon learn
that playing hooky will get them in more trouble than being
late.
57 - The Garage Painters
After the boys agree to paint the garage door, the only one
who actually gets paint poured all over him is little Benjie
Bellamy. Mrs. Bellamy becomes horrified when she sees her son,
and Ward ends up calling her and apologizing for the incident.
58 - Wally's Pug Nose
Wally is embarrassed by his pug nose, and so he avoids Gloria
who is the girl he likes at school. When she asks Wally to be
her date at a school dance, he asks why Gloria would choose
him. She says it is because of his cute pug nose, and Wally
is happy with his nose for a change.
59 - Beaver's Pigeons
Beaver decides he wants pigeons as his new pets. However, as
soon as the birds are brought home from the pet store, Beaver
gets the chicken pox and is not allowed near the pigeons. His
luck only becomes worse when he finds out that a cat has eaten
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