They climbed over the metal latticework like a pair of simians, hanging on with their hands and brachiating from bar to bar as if they were limbs on the trees of a densely wooded forest.
Joey then suggested that they play on his favorite amusement, the merry-go-round. The two boys got on either side of the eight-foot pivoted metal platform and held on to the bars radiating from the merry-go-round’s center, then they pushed counterclockwise to give it a start and ran until they had run up its speed to the maximum angular velocity that their small muscles could impart. Once they had the merry-go-round up to speed, they hopped on and hung on for dear life. Anita caught flashes of Howard’s face as he whizzed by.
