



THE Twins’ mom is having the baby.
And it’s going to ruin the whole plan!
The plan being raiding the garden of the Crones and picking it clean. For revenge!
Those rotten Crones are always ordering things from the stand and not paying. And why?
“The tomatoes were bruised!” they say, or, “The eggs were cracked!” And they always blame it on Primo, saying he’s too reckless with the deliveries. Which is almost never true!
But now the Twins are running off, and— uh-oh —one of the shutters in the Crones’ house slams open! It’s the tall skinny one—the one who always stiffs them.
They’re gonna get caught! Or Sergio is, anyway. He’s stuck inside the garden. Primo hops down off the tree to the top of the wall and runs to get Maria Beppina.
At least he can save her .